South of the Sahara: African Music - http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/music.html
Stanford University's annotated guide to African
music sites. |
African Music Encyclopedia - http://www.africanmusic.org/
African music styles and musicians worldwide, listing
of music stores, bookstore, and links. |
Afropop Worldwide - http://www.afropop.org/
Database of articles on African music and musicians
searchable by artist, style, and country. Includes radio shows, reviews and
interviews, and a glossary. |
NTAMA - Journal for African Music and Popular Culture - http://ntama.uni-mainz.de/
Articles, reviews, recent releases, events in
Germany, and obituaries. |
African Hip Hop - http://www.africanhiphop.com/
Platform for information and discussion on hip hop
from the African continent. News, reviews, downloads amd music store. |
Gateway of Africa - http://www.gatewayofafrica.com/
Musicians listed by country and style. Includes
biographies, discographies, worldwide concert listings, and links. |
East
African Music - http://members.aol.com/dpaterson/eamusic.htm
Descriptions of Kenyan and Tanzanian popular music,
discographies, audio files, and a profile of Samba Mapangala and Orchestra
Virunga with audio samples. |
Dandemutande - http://www.dandemutande.com/
Worldwide resource for Zimbabwean music includes e-zine,
calendar of concerts and festivals, and database of performers, teachers,
instrument makers, vendors, and websites. |
Nigeria-Arts.Net
- Music - http://www.nigeria-arts.net/Music/
Musical styles and profiles of artists. |
Afro-Caribbean Music Guide - http://www.afromix.org/
African musicians by style, label, country,
instrument, and year. Biographies, audio samples, lyrics, articles, and
links. |
Roots
World: African Music - http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/africa.html
Includes artist profiles, articles, reviews, and
audio samples. |
Africa Sounds - http://www.africasounds.com/
Focuses on music from Central and West Africa.
Includes articles on styles, top performers, new music albums, and United
States concert listings. |
World Music: African Music in Australasia - http://www.acslink.aone.net.au/christo/african.htm
Includes history, instruments, musicians categorized
by country and style, and interviews [Flash]. |
Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique - http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/4939/frames/framemus.html
Popular urban music of Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire,
Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Congo. Includes artist profiles, reviews, and a
schedule of festivals in Europe. |
Afribeat - http://www.afribeat.com/
South African based music and arts site. Reviews,
artist profiles, and film and music festivals. |
Zimbabwe Music Guide - http://www.embargo.ca/zim/
Chimurenga, jit, rhumba, sungura, soukous music and
musicians. Includes profiles, discographies, audio samples, guitar
tablature, listing of record labels and music stores, and links. |
Musique
d'Afrique. - http://people.zeelandnet.nl/rufus/
African pop music selections available in streaming
audio and through download in Real Audio. |
Highlife Piccadilly - http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/african.htm
African music released on 45 rpm records in the
United Kingdom between 1954 and 1981. |
Recordiversity - http://members.lycos.co.uk/dubcitizen/
Information and images about collectable records,
with the emphasis on seven-inch singles from Africa. |
African
Music WebRing - http://www.notz.com/webring/index.html
List sites or join the ring. |
