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Music and Dance of Africa
- Africa No.1 -- Radio africaine (Paris, France ; Libreville, Gabon)
- The African Guide (Nicole Smith & Albert Angel, USA)
This searchable illustrated guide provides a listing of current and upcoming festivals and other major cultural events across Africa, with links to web sites. "The African Guide aims to promote cultural tourism in Africa as well as make Africa a priority travel destination."
- AfricaSounds.Com (New York)
A current and extensive guide to the popular African and Afro-Caribbean music scene, with performance schedules for the New York City area, interviews, reviews, and links to many other African music web sites.
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Africanhiphop.Com -- Pan African Hip Hop (Madunia African Music, De Bilt, The Netherlands)
In English or French. Current news, interviews, lyrics, multi-media files, and promotional information on the latest artists and their work in African 'hip hop' culture. 'This web site, originally called 'Rumba-Kali' was initiated in February 1997 as a platform for information and discussion on hip hop from the African continent.'
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African Music Archive (Wolfgang Bender, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrika-Studien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany)
- African Music and Dance (C.K. Ladzekpo, University of California, Berkeley)
This site offers information (with image, sound, and video files) on the musical traditions of the Ewe of Ghana, and of other West African societies. There are also descriptions of programs at UC--Berkeley.
- African Music and Drumming Resources on the Web (Prof. Eric Charry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut)
An extremely helpful web site, particularly on West African music (see below) ; plus many links to other sites.
- The African Music Encyclopedia (2005) (Janet Planet, USA)
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Toshiyo Endo's African Music Home Page (via Laboratory of Biochemistry, Nagoya University, Japan)
A small library of discographies for musical stars and bands from Nigeria and Senegal.
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Afromix: Afro-Caribbean Music (Afromix.Org, Fabrice Gaillard, Paris)
In English, French, or Spanish. Current and some historical background on the popular music of each country in Africa, the Caribbean, & the Indian Ocean, with information on recordings of major artists; plus "Black Paris" music industry information and links to other sites.
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AFROPOP Worldwide Home Page (World Music Productions, New York; in partnership with ARTSEDGE, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC)
"Afropop Worldwide is PRI Public Radio International's weekly series showcasing the contemporary musical cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora in the Caribbean, the Americas and Europe. Hosted by international broadcast personality Georges Collinet from Cameroon.." This site offers information about the radio program; Afropop-sponsored events and trips; and, general information about the music of Africa and the African diaspora.
- Azawan Amazigh = Musique Amazighe = Amazigh Music (Maroc?)
Un site en français, en anglais, ou en tamazight-- qui célèbre les artistes dans le domaine de la musique amazighe de l'Afrique du Nord. Le site comprend un répertoire des musiciens avec une entrée biographique pour chaque artiste et une petite sélection des fichiers vidéos et sonores.
- Balafon -- Marimba or Xylophone (See Marimbalafon below)
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Baaba Maal on the Web
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Francis Bebey (1929-2001)
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Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique (via GeoCities.Com)
An extensive archive of discographies (without audio samples) on African musical artists from all over the continent -- in English or in French. This site includes a CD shop, information about festivals, CD reviews, links to artists' websites, and monthly updates on new releases!
- The Sahel Opera Project: "Bintou Were: A Sahel Opera" = Bintou Wéré: Un Opéra du Sahel (via Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
The official web site --in English, Dutch, or in French-- for a new international opera in two acts with music composed by Zé Manel. Wasis Diop is the artistic director and wrote the libretto with Koulsy Lamko. The opera, sung in Bambara, Malinké and Wolof, premiered in Bamako, Mali, in February 2007, performed in May 2007 in Amsterdam, and again in late October 2007 in Paris, France. The site includes background information, the downloadable libretto and notes, color photographs of scenes, and 1 short video from Bamako, and 1 full-length video recording of scenes from the Amsterdam production.
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Black Arts Research Center (Nyack, New York)
General information about the center, its director -- John Gray, and related links. "Founded in 1989, the Black Arts Research Center is an archival resource center dedicated to the documentation, preservation and dissemination of the African cultural legacy. Resources include some 2300 recordings, cassettes and videotapes, 1300 books and journals, 500 clippings files and a bibliographic database with more than 50,000 entries. These materials now offer one of the richest resources ever on the Black presence in the performing arts."
- BongoFlava.Com (UK)
This website features news about events and trends in Tanzanian hip-hop music and other forms of contemporary East African youth music with Swahili lyrics.
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Brenda Fassie, 1964-2004
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Capital FM - Nairobi's Best Mix of Music (Capital Group, Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya)
The home page of the 98.4 FM radio station in Nairobi, with weekly pop music charts in East Africa, programme schedule, and other general information on the contemporary cultural scene in Nairobi.
- CD Baby: African World Music (Portland, Oregon)
A commercial site, with sample downloads.
- Classical Music Recordings of Black Composers: A Reference Guide (Richard Greene ; via Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
This "classical music" website offers a discography (PDF format), composer listing, recent promotional news, and related links.
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Cora Connection: The Manding Music Traditions of West Africa (USA)
The home page of a Boston-based American "world music ensemble" lead by kora player David Gilden ; plus related links on the kora, educational programs, and concerts.
-- See also: Selected Kora Masters on the Internet
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Dandemutande: Zimbabwean music & culture worldwide (Seattle, Washington)
This US site offers a basic introduction to Zimbabwean music, contact information on teachers who specialize in Zimbabwean music in the US and elsewhere, images of "traditional" instruments, texts of interviews with Zimbabwean musicians, photographs, and links to related sites.
- Djembé.com - Le Site de Référence du Tambour Djembé et de la Culture Mandingue (Laurent Solas et al., via Allaban WebSystems, France)
- East African Music (Douglas B. Paterson, Seattle, Washington)
Articles and discographies on the popular music of Kenya, Tanzania, and the Congo. The author of this site is a cultural anthropologist, who also has a radio program in the Seattle area.
- Ethiopian Music and Dance Performance: Abonesh Adnew and Company, June 20, 2004 (Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, Washington, DC) RealPlayer required.
This is an "About the Artist" web page, with a link to a full length video of the "International Refugee Day" performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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VH1.com on Cesaria Evora (USA)
A brief profile of this world-renowned Cape Verdian star, with a list of her current engagements, discography, and related links.
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Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, 1938-1997:
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14ème Festival de Fès des Musiques Sacrées du Monde -- Les voies de la création: du 6 au 16 juin 2008 (Fès, Maroc)
Un site -- en anglais, en français, et en arabe -- qui offre le programme et les informations sur les artistes.
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Festival de Jazz de Saint-Louis du Sénégal: du 24 au 27 mai 2007 (via France)
Sur ce site officiel du festival, on peut trouver les informations les plus utiles à propos de cet événement annuel. De plus, on peut lire des petites lectures générales sur quelques artistes qui ont donné des représentations au festival dans le passé.
- FESMAN: Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres, prévu en 2010, Dakar, Sénégal
= World Festival of Black Arts = Festival Mundial das Artes Negras (République du Sénégal, Ministère de la Culture, Dakar, Sénégal)
- Music in Ghana (Osu-Accra, Ghana)
Promotional news about the current music scene in Ghana and an online catalog of contemporary Ghanaian musical artists.
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Ghanadrum--Yacub Addy (Yacub & Amina Addy; via Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York)
An illustrated ("high-bandwidth") website, with a few audio and video files, about the artist Yacub Addy who also teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs (New York), the group Odadaa, the organization Africalive, and detailed summaries on Ghanaian drums and music.
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Gnawa Stories: Mystical Musician Healers from Morocco (Rodrigo Dorfman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
A Masters' thesis project on the history and cultural traditions of the Gnawa, with maps and suggested readings in print and on the web.
- Gumbé: ô ponto de encontro dos Guineenses -- Música da Guiné-Bissau. (Bissau)
- Netsite for the Music in the Horn of Africa (Andreas Wetter, Universität Mainz, Germany)
A selection of audio files of contemporary music from Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, and Sudan, with brief descriptions, a bibliography on the literature about music from the Horn of Africa, and links to other sites.
- International Centre for African Music and Dance at the University of Ghana -- US Secretariat (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
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Jens Finke's Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya (Olhão, Portugal)
An extensive collection of texts, bibliographies, and links to information about the history, cultures, and "traditional" music of up to 32 different cultural groups ("tribes") in Kenya, with a clickable map and audio files (excerpted from cassette tapes recorded or purchased in the country during 1998-99). The author is a traveller, photographer, and author.
- Jomba 2007: 10th Contemporary Dance Experience, August 24--September 1, 2007, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban (Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
The site provides information on the annual festival and links to highlights from the previous programmes since 2000.
- Kaay Fecc -- Le Festival de Toutes les Danses, Dakar, Sénégal (Tous les deux ans depuis 2001)
- Salif Keita on the Web
- Koffi Olomide
- Kora Awards -- All Africa Music Awards -- Les trophées de la musique africaine (Calabar, Nigeria)
- Selected Kora Masters on the Internet
- Balla Kouyaté -- West African Music -- Balafon (New York)
- Lark in the Morning: Africa --plus-- African music machine for Macintosh computers (Mendocino, California)
A commercial site offering a catalog of African instruments, with useful illustrations and sound files.
- Lucky Dube (1964-2007)
Official web site of the very popular South African reggae music artist, with biography, discography, videography, song lyrics, press cuttings, and a few short audio files.
- Miriam Makeba, 1932-2008
- Links to Malagasy Music (August Schmidhofer and Claude Razanajao, Archives Virtuelles de la Musique Malgache, University of Vienna, Austria)
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Marimbalafon.Com (Hoofdorp, The Netherlands)
C'est le site officiel (en français ou en anglais) de l'Association Marimbalafon, qui a été créé en France à l'origine et qui est dédiée à la promotion des xylophones, marimbas, balafons et consorts, principalement d'Afrique. Le site comprend un répertoire d'artistes, une base de données de références (une bibliographie), une carte de pays, d'ethnies, et de termes en Afrique, et plusieurs fichiers sonores -- et une boutique.
- Maziki.Net -- Le site des musiques Africaines et centrafricaines (Maïgaro/APMA--Association pour la Promotion de la Musique Africaine, Paris, et Planète-Kotara--Association Culturelle et Artistique Centrafricaine, Bangui, République Centrafricaine)
Le site offre les renseignements les plus utiles sur les artistes et les groupes centrafricains, plusieurs résumés de l'histoire des musiques traditionelles et contemporaines, les dates concerts et soirées, etc. "Maziki.Net créé en septembre 2003 est un site désormais consacré à la promotion de la Musique Centrafricaine sous toutes ses formes. 'Maziki, mozoko'ou encore 'N'gombi'en la ngue nationale de Centrafrique le 'Sango', veut dire tout simplement Musique."
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Mbira Home Page (Solomon Murungu and Zambuko Projects Unlimited.)
Extensive information on the history and traditions of mbira in Zimbabwe; includes sound clips, discographies of mbira stars, and links to related sites.
- Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi on the Net
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MusicUganda.Com (Paul Mwandha et al., Music Uganda, Ltd., Kampala, Uganda)
This website features popular music industry news, photographs, music reviews, and related links for Uganda and Africa in general.
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Notz.Com: African Pages (Alisdair "Chirps" MacRae Birch, New York)
A collection of audio files and brief texts on "Highlife" and "Soukous" styles of music from West Africa; plus links to other African music sites--including the "African Music Webring" and a short list of recommended books. The "pages" are part of a larger collection on Jazz and other forms of music of interest to the webmaster, a Scottish-born musician.
- Ntama: journal of African music and popular culture. (Online) -- Hildesheim, Germany: Ntama, via Universität Hildesheim, 2002-
This electronic journal --in English and in German-- features articles, interviews, and reviews especially on African musicians travelling in Europe and elsewhere outside Africa.
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The Orishas in Music (Discography) (Ian Scott Horst, via AOL)
This site consists of two lists of recordings and artists. "The Orishas are divine beings originally worshipped by the Yoruba people of West Africa. Their worship was carried to the New World in the holds of slave ships, and became well established in many countries of the western hemisphere. Music is a major element in the worship of the Orishas. ... Orishas have also insinuated themselves into the melting pot of popular culture, and songs celebrating their existence have come out of many musical genres, from jazz to salsa to disco."
- Pan African All Stars (College Park, Georgia)
A commercial site with catalog of selected African music artists, organized by genre or country, downloads of excerpts from albums, and order information; plus free 24/7 Internet Radio.
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RAGE--South African Street Culture Online (Black Rage Productions, South Africa)
Current monthly news (some weekly updates) and promotional information on African music and the South African urban pop entertainment scene, with photos, feature stories, and an archive of back issues.
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RootsWorld on Africa:
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Sabar Drumming Web Site (Karen Hymbaugh, Doudou Ndiaye Rose, Wagane Ndiaye Rose ... [et al.], via Mindspring.Com, USA)
General information about sabar drumming and dancing from Senegal. plus useful links to other sites and announcements on classes and performances in the US and in Senegal.
- Saharan Vibe on "Sabar Music" (2008) (USA)
A blog essay on "sabar" drumming and dancing in Senegal, West Africa, with photos and links to videos and other web sites.
- SABC--South African Broadcasting Corporation (Johannesburg, South Africa)
This corporate site includes a selection of "live" radio broadcast downloads---especially popular music ; plus a searchable TV program guide.
- The Sahel Opera Project: "Bintou Were: A Sahel Opera" (via Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Festival de Jazz de Saint-Louis du Sénégal (see above)
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St. Louis Africa Chorus (St. Louis, Missouri)
- This web site provides information about an American music organization with a developing, global African perspective; plus related links to events.
- Home Page in English or in French
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Oumou Sangare on the Web
- Saramaya: le site du djembe, du balafon, de la musique traditionnelle d'Afrique Mandingue (Lionel Bony, via Association Noosphere, Coux, France)
Saramaya est un groupe qui est composé de quatre percussionistes chanteurs, et d'une chanteuse aussi danseuse, tous de Bobo-Dioulasso au Burkina Faso. Le site offre des informations sur le Burkina Faso et ses cultures (y compris des recettes de la cuisine des burkinabés et une brève liste de livres recommandés), les informations à propos du groupe Saramaya, avec plusieurs fichiers sonores de leurs enregistrements, et même quelques fichiers vidéos. En plus, on peut créer sa propre composition musique. Il faut avoir le plug-in Macromedia Flash Player.
- 6th Edition Sauti za Busara Music Festival, Zanzibar, Tanzania, 12-17 February 2009
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South Africa's National Anthem
- Sudan Festival of Music and Dance, July 2008, Chicago, Illinois, and Detroit, Michigan --via AFROPOP Worldwide.
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Sudan.Net: Music Features (Muaz M. Ataalsid)
Download music files (with RealPlayer) of performances by Sudanese artists: Mohamed Wardi, Ali Ibrahim Allahu, Hussein Shendi, Shar Habil Ahmad, Abidah Al-Sheikh, Hamad Al-Rayah, and others. See also, the Sudan.Net Home Page for a "weekly" music feature.
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Sunduza Dance Theatre, UK (Southern 'E'Media, UK)
A promotional web page about the group, with links to audio and video files. "Sunduza in Ndebele means 'let us push'. They come from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Sunduza have been pushing their beautiful scintillating harmonies, percussive rhythms and high energy dances internationally. The productions reflect a wide range of Southern African dance normally displayed in a context to which international audiences can relate. The performances are upbeat and reflect modern and traditional issues in Southern Africa. They are unique. Lead vocalist, choreographer and composer Simon Banda has given their sound a special harmonic difference."
- Ali Farka Touré (1939-2006)
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West African Music Pages (Prof. Eric Charry, Wesleyan University, Middleton, Connecticut)
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Youssou N'Dour (Promotional sites)
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