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Turnbull became a Naturalized Citizen of the United States in 1959 , and lived in New York and Virginia with his professional collaborator and partner of 30 years, the African American Dr. Joseph Towles, as an openly Gay and Interracial Couple in one of the smallest and most conservative towns of 1960s rural Virginia, during which time he also took up the the cause of death row inmates. After his partner's death in 1988, Turnbull retreated to a Buddhist monastery where he lived out his remaining years under a Buddhist name before his death in 1994. Both Drs. Towles and Turnbull died from the complications of AIDS . Some of Turnbull's recordings of BaMbuti music were commercially released, and his works inspired other Ethnomusicological studies, such those of Simha Arom and Mauro Campagnoli . SEE ALSO ''Research fields:'' ''Other researchers who studied pygmy cultures:'' |
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