Surf these sites: AIT Records -- Traditional and contemporary Ethiopian music. AMBIANCE KIRI - KIRI -- AMBIANCE KIRI - KIRI, an African music audio site, solely devoted to the "Sweet Old Music of the CONGO." Abdullah Ibrahim''s Mantra Modes -- Devoted to the inspirational music and artistry of leading South African composer, pianist, and bandleader Dr. Abdullah Ibrahim (formerly known as Dollar Brand). Africa Online Music Forum -- An ongoing, online discussion of African music. African Australian Music -- African Australian music, musicians, and instruments African Drumming -- At present, we have more than 500 djembe drums in our stock, this allows us to have lower prices. Come and see for yourself! African Music - Popular music of the 20th Century -- The roles and functions of songs in Africa. Basic introductory article. African Music : dancedrummer.com -- Traditional West African Music, Drumming - Instructional Movies, Texts, and Manuscripts African Music Archive -- Homepage of the African Music Archive at Mainz University. African Music Encyclopedia -- An overview of music from Africa and the African Diaspora by country and artist. African Music Hompage -- Discographies of selected African artists in Nigeria and Senegal by T. Endo. African Music Productions -- African Music Productions offer the best collections of African, Caribbean, Martinique, Cuban and Reggae Music Videos, Traditional Music, Films, Comedy, Documentary and Sports. African Music WebRing Home -- How to join the African Music WebRing. African Music Webring -- A list of African Music Webring sites. The African Music WebRing describes itself as, "The collection of the best African Music Sites around the world. Featuring the music of the African continent, including Ghanian highlife and soukous, Nigerian juju and fuji, Cameroon''s makossa, Cote d''Ivoire''s zglibithy, Senegalese mbalax, South Africa''s Jazz and pop, and East African Taarab." African Music from MP3.com -- Download MP3 files African musicians (predominantly South African artists). African Odyssey Interactive -- African Odyssey Interactive (AOI) promotes the exchange of ideas, information, and resources between artists, teachers, and students of African arts and culture. It is an adjunct initiative of the Kennedy Center’s African Odyssey Festival program and the Kennedy Center Education Department''s ARTSEDGE Program. African Performance Clearinghouse -- The purpose of the African Performance Clearinghouse is to collect, process, and dispense information about performances and tours by African artists in North America for the benefit of performers and audiences. African-Brazilian Connection -- In English or Portuguese. Joint site between MangoTree Productions and Brazil OnLine spotlighting several Afro-Brazilian artists. Africassette Music -- Commercial site. Worldwide distributor of African and World Music on compact disc, cassette tape, & video. Also a record label. Africmusic -- Providing three channels of African music. Afro-Caribbean Music Guide -- Extensive list of African musicians; by style, label, country, instrument, year "devoted to the promotion of the Afro-Caribbean culture by the mean[s] of it''s music." Biographies and audio samples. Afro-Dicia! -- Afro-Dicia on KPFK 90.7 FM, Los Angeles. Homepage for DJ Nnamdi''s African pop music program. Afropop Worldwide -- Homepage for the internationally syndicated radio program; includes information about the radio series, biographies of leading African musicians, discographies, African recipes, etc. Alpha Blondy Productions -- African Reggae Music, Productions, Publishing and Distrubutions. Amampondo -- Award-winning traditional Xhosa percussion group from Cape Town, South Africa. Angélique Kidjo -- The singer''s official homepage. Includes a biography, discography with song lyrics, sound clips of her music, and a section on culture in Benin that looks at Voodoo. Angélique Kidjo Unofficial Homepage -- David Sauvé''s Unofficial Homepage for Angélique Kidjo. Contains reviews of all her LP/CD releases, lyrics, and links to other interiews, articles, and reviews of Angélique Kidjo. MP3 sound clips in this site were "suspended" at last check. Arthur Goldstuck''s "Music of South Africa" -- Features, stories and reports written during 17 years of following the saga of South African music. This resource offers features written for the first Billboard (Magazine) Spotlight on South Africa, published on 6 April 1996. Additional articles from Billboard as well as from various South African and international publications. Baaba Maal -- Unofficial home page of Senegalese singer. Discography, lyrics, links to interviews and recording purchase sites. Back Stage -- Information and resources for the South African Musician Cairo Symphony Orchestra -- (Egypt) Calendar of concerts and tours; contact information. Cora Connection -- Cora Connection provides information on the folk music traditions of West Africa. Cora Connection sells hard to find recordings, professional quality instruments and offers educational workshops. Dandemutande -- Dandemutande: A resource for lovers of Zimbabwean marimba and mbira music, including a calendar of events worldwide, a resource guide, a mail order catalog, and articles about the music, the instruments, and the people who play them. Dapamda Online -- Danish Association for Promotion of African Music, Drama & Art. Didier BILE, Le Roi du Zouglou -- Site consacré au créateur du Zouglou (musique et danse originaires de Côte d''Ivoire). Né d''un mouvement de revolte etudiante (1990), cette musique originale est issue du mélange de rythmes de danse, de textes bien sentis, d''une bonne dose d''ironie et surtout d''une joie de vivre communicative. Digital Cupboard (South Africa) -- A production company offering African music downloads in MP3 and Liquid Audio. Primarily South African artists. Dirty Linen: Baaba Maal: Senegal -- Short excerpt of a 1996 Dirty Linen article by Tony Montague on Baaba Maal. Has link to Real Audio sample of Maal''s "Baayo". East African Music -- A site devoted to Kenyan and Tanzanian popular music: Descriptions of the music, discographies, audio files, and the Samba Mapangala Home Page. EthiopianMusic.com -- Site claims to be the Internet''s largest source for Ethiopian music on CD. Franco & TP OK Jazz -- A history of Franco & TP OK Jazz (also includes a review of 1950s/60s Congolese music). Franco Luambo Makiadi & TP O.K. Jazz Discography -- An extensive discography of virtually all CDs issued with music by Franco & TP OK Jazz. Franco and TP OK Jazz -- This site is dedicated to L'' Okanga La Ndju Pene Luambo Luambo Makiadi (Franco), Congo and Africa''s greatest ever musician bandleader and cultural icon. Biography, history of OK Jazz; additional pages on Tabu Ley, Koffi Olomide, and others. Free Mzwakhe Mbuli -- Website for musician and people''s poet of South Africa, Mzwakhe Mbuli, who has been framed and wrongfully convicted and is incarcerated. Site includes an online petition and information about this remarable artist who has played an important role in South Africa''s history and who deals with his poetry with critical issues affecting South Africa and the continent. Gallo Music International -- A commercial site for Gallo Music International providing information on the record label''s artists, their catalogue, tours of the artists, etc. International Library of African Music -- Sells sound recordings of traditional music from south of the Sahara. Historical and educational material. Old institution dating to 1930''s : home of Hugh Tracey. It''s Steaming Soukous but Who Is It? -- Bill Wagner goes through his African pop music archives and posts "unidentified" songs for us to hear and identify, in streaming and downloadable Real Audio. Lots of great soukous/rumba numbers as well as a few numbers from outside the soukous/rumba zone. Jah''Key Malle -- Jah''Key Malle, a Kenyan reggae artist since 1986. Kwayas, Kandas, Kiosks: Tanzanian Popular Choir Music -- Tanzanian Kwaya Music is an emerging form of popular music in East Africa. Gregory Barz looks at Kwayas--the musics they sing; Kandas--the audio cassettes they record and produce; and Kiosks--the outlet most often used for selling kandas. Audio samples included. MBIRA, non-profit organization for Shona mbira music -- Traditional Shona mbira music of Zimbabwe: educational info, concerts and workshops, field recordings catalog. Organization supports traditional musicians in Zimbabwe. Madunia African Music -- African music website dedicated to exposing both old and new African music that is little known outside the continent. Site has background on artists, a changing monthly show in Real Audio/Video, features on individual artists, etc. Mbira -- Mbira is a resource for people around the world who have an interest in Mbira, Marimba and Chimurenga styles of music from the indigenous cultures of Zimbabwe. Related topics, Shona and Ndebele customs, Shona language and literature, traditions and beliefs as they relate to mbira music is also discussed. MiXite (English version) -- African pop music site with information about artists, releases, etc. The Dutch language portion of the site is substantial. Motherland Music''s Imported African Musical Instruments -- Motherland Music imports high quality handcrafted African drums and other musical instruments from Ghana, Nigeria, The Ivory Coast, Morocco, and Togo from djembes to xylophones. Music from the Maghreb -- Listings of music from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. This page is the creation of the "Maghrebi Studies Group of Binghamton University," a group of graduate students from the Comparative Literature and Translation Research and Instruction Programs at Binghamton (NY). Music of Africa -- Columbia University - Area Studies Musique d''Afrique. -- African pop music selections available in streaming audio and through download in Real Audio. NTAMA - Journal of African Music and Popular Culture -- An online journal devoted to African popular music and culture. Oriental Tunes -- Listen to top Oriental music and songs in RealAudio, MP3 and RealVideo. In this case, "Oriental" means from North Africa to the Middle East to the Indian sub-continent and beyond. Very nicely done. Pacific Blues/Treetones -- Treetones we make Marimbas, kalimba,xylophones. Instruments with African origins made by hand to be played by hand. In Bandon OR Pambazuko -- A dynamic presentation of African music, poetry and storytelling. Pier''s African Music Links -- African music links. Random Starting Point in African Music WebRing -- This URL will take you to a random location in the African Music WebRing... an entry point from which to tour the WebRing. Rap, ragga, reggae in East Africa -- This site is about the scenes and the people in rap, ragga and reggae in three African capital cities (Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, and Lusaka). It is also part of the story of musics on a roundtrip in time and space: From Africa to the Americas and back to Africa; from the local to the global and back to the local again. Rumba-Kali Home of Pan African Hip Hop... -- Active and extensive site on Hip Hop activity in Africa. South African Music on music.org.za -- A-Z index of artists, photo gallery, news & events in South African music. African, Jazz, Hip Hop and more .... Speedbitch''s Void -- South African Industrial music and Clubs TAARAB -- Personal site about Tarabu music, "a fusion of Swahili tunes sung in rhythmic poem spiced with Arabic or at times Indian melodies." Tarika -- Official site for the Malagasy roots group Tarika. Includes discography, tour dates and contact info. Tarika Sammy Homepage -- An introduction to the Malagasy musical group, Tarika Sammy; their recordings, Malagasy instruments, and Malagasy musical links. The African Music Experience -- Tequila Records is an independent South African Music Production House. The South African Music Webring -- A Webring promoting websites with South African music content. Fan sites, band and artist sites, products and services, music resources. Township Meltdown - the Scouseafrican sound of Skokiaan !! -- Township meltdown - the unique Scouseafrican sound of Skokiaan has been heard throughout the UK playing their blend of marabi jive, calypso reggae and even swing !! Listen to soundclips from new album ''Soniclambbanana''. Verckys: Kiamangwana wa Zalambongo Mateta -- A biography of Verckys, the famous bandleader of Orchestre Veve. Village Pulse Outpost -- Record label producing recordings of West African drum music that have been largely unavailable to the outside world. Emphasis on Mandinka drum music. West African Music -- Eric Charry''s West African Music site has information on West African harps, guitar, and jembe. Includes sound, graphics, and videos that illustrate the descriptions given in Charry''s academic writings. Whats On - 1 -- A calendar of events, musical and otherwise, at London''s Africa Centre. Youssou N''dour -- Unofficial home page for this important Senegalese artist. Extensive discography, translated lyrics, links to purchase recordings. No tour dates.
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