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African music
- The African music archive
of the Institute of Ethnology
and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
includes a detailed description of the gramophone library of the Sierra
Leone Broadcasting Service (more than 700 disks) held at the archive. The
author maintains a list of African music and ethnomusicology web sites.
- The African music encyclopedia
may oversell its contents with this title, but it does include a
bibliography/bookstore, contact information for distribution sources for
recordings, a glossary of African music terms, and a good set of related
links.
- Try also the Musical
Instrument Encyclopedia at the Music
Heritage Network site. It isn't a comprehensive resource, but can be
browsed by geographic region or searched by keywords.
- Cora connection is a band
web site, which includes a page listing instruments available for sale and
a good deal of other information on especially West African music and
popular performers.
- Doctoral dissertations in
musicology online is an electronic version of Doctoral
Dissertations in Musicology published by the American Musicological
Society and the International Musicological Society. The database is
searchable by Boolean operators. I easily identified a dozen dissertations
published from 1970-1997 from a variety of international universities
using this service. Dissertations identified from the database are
available from Bell+Howell's dissertation
service (formerly UMI). Indiana University's music library and
archives also house a collection of Somali
materials at the Archives
of Traditional Music.
- The East African
music page focuses on discographies of recordings in a number of
popular styles from Kenya and Tanzania, as well as "classic" Zaïrean/Congolese
music. The author also tracks African
cinema (including distribution sources for African films in the U.S.)
and music radio
broadcasts from the Seattle area in streaming RealPlayer format.
- International
library of African music (ILAM): "The International
Library of African Music, founded by the late Hugh Tracey in 1954 after 25
years of recording African music, is a research institution devoted to the
scientific study of African music and the oral arts in Africa. It has
published over 250 long-playing records and many others, publishes the
journal African
Music...serves as an information and
co-ordination centre for research on African music, and publicises the
virtues of African music and dance."
The site also features lists of recordings available
and links to related African music sites.
- C. K. Ladzekpo is
a Ghanaian drummer, choreographer and African music teacher who
"joined the music faculty of the University of California at Berkeley
in 1973 and remains an influential catalyst of the African perspective in
the performing arts." This site features his work, including his Foundation
Course in African Dance-Drumming and much more.
- The Straus Expedition: Musical Instruments of West Africa
is a CD-ROM set issued in 2002 by the Indiana
University Press.
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