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The Gramophone Records Museum and Research Centre of Ghana (GRMRC) is a museum dedicated to preserving Ghanaian recordings. It was founded by Kwame Sarpong and opened to the public in December 1994. It is located in the Centre for National Culture in Cape Coast.[1]

The Gramophone Records Museum and Research Centre of Ghana (GRMRC)

Established	1994 December
Owner	Kwame Sarpong

In 2003, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for the Art, Science and Technology in Canada began sponsoring a project to digitise Highlife recordings from the museum's collections.[2] Some of the museum's holdings have been transferred to CD for the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress's American Folklife Center.[3]

See also

• List of music museums

References

Citations

Bibliography

• Sarpong, Kwame (2004). "Ghana's Highlife Music: A Digital Repertoire of Recordings and Pop Art at the Gramophone Records Museum". History in Africa. 31: 455–461. doi:10.1017/s0361541300003612. JSTOR 4128540.

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