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Although the resources presented here don't seem to be too numerous they are actually invaluable regarding further searching. Most URL's provided here contain well maintained lists of links - a job we just can't undertake ourselves. If you maintain such a site yourself please send me the info to get you included here!
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| Websites related to african music |
| Even more websites related to african music |
| Ethnomusicology links |
| Newsgroups centered around african music |
| Miscellaneous
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| Searching the net
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For the true aficionados "The Encyclopedia of African music" here offers a large listing of a variety of websites referring to a really huge spectrum of musical styles of Africa and the diaspora extending from Angola to Zimbabwe and everything between. Includes lots of links to related sites and an African Artist Alphabetical List.
The Internat
ional Library of African Music
(ILAM) hosts a comprehensive website. Included is a catalogue of
Hugh Tracey's well-known Music of Africa series of recordings, with sound
samples, and a catalogue of the more detailed 250 LP collection, the Sound
of Africa. There is also a feature on the timbila xylophones, written
by director Andrew Tracey, and a tour of ILAM, complete with pictures of
instruments. A catalogue of ILAM publications is available for download.
This includes titles from the journal African Music and the ILAM Symposia
on Ethnomusicology. Soon to be added is complete access to the ILAM
archive of over 20,000 field recordings from around Africa, dating from
the 1930's. ILAM aslo plans to digitise its archive and make recordings
available for sale on the internet.
Reviews and articles about African music on the site of Rootsworld. You find reviews of new released CDs by Opiyo Oloya on the Afrodisc pages. To find the newest one you have to play with the url: try to change the number after afrodisc - "....afrodiscxx.html".
The Information Centre for Southern African Music (ISAM) is investigating especially about local music styles and traditions of southern Africa.
Everything you always wanted to know about the mbira can possibly be found out at the Mbira Home Page, which offers even more links about this great instrument.
Here is the homepage of Ghanain masterdrummer C. K. Ladzekpo - African Music and Dance, who is living and teaching in the USA.
There has been so much response to this page with corrections and suggestions! Thanks to everybody! As we don't find time to update this page in a more verbose manner you'll find only links to respective pages below:
| Afropop Worldwide |
| Rootsworld: reviews of African records |
| Eric Charry's Home Page |
| Coded Messages: CHAINS with a page to the Ewe drum language Vu Gbe |
| Carol Lems-Dworkins site- some literature about African music |
| AFRICA MUSIC PAGE - a nice site with links to African music sites and sounds |
| Music at AfricaOnline |
| MUSIC AFRICA - a non profit community organisation dedicated to the promotion of African music and culture in Toronto |
| Africa Sounds - a New York based site with Information about music from Cameroon, African concerts in the US, African bars and cafés and much more |
| Netsite for the Music in the Horn of Africa - the music of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan, links and sounds |
The following list of links is of more general ethnomusicological interest:
| British Library National Sound Archive
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| Ethnomusicology On Line Home Site and it's Mirrorsite |
| European Seminar in Ethnomusicology |
| Ethnomusicology Research Digest |
The primary focus of alt.music.african is african popular music.
A wider spectrum of afrostyles is covered by rec.music.afro-latin, which is also
heavily inclined to caribbean and other latin music styles.
A more global perspective is maintained by alt.music.world just like the title is indicating.
A wider variety of musicresources can be searched by
Music Resources on the Internet
The best we have found so far seems to be Altavista, with even excellent results!
Contributions or corrections to this page are very wanted and very welcome. Just drop a mail to
pseelig@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de
if you can help out with any kind of appropriate information!
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