African Presences I: Music in Africa

General Resources

• CIA World Factbook (select country from pulldown menu)
• Earth Atlas
• WoYaa! (Africa search engine)
• Columbia University African Studies home page links
• Stanford University Africa links
• AfricaMap at Harvard

General African Music Resources

• SEM African Music Section
• Voice of America African Music Treasures
• Afropop Worldwide
• British Library Archive of Sound Recordings
• Ross Archive of African Images, Yale University (extensive historical drawings)
• Gateway of Africa
• African music videos (the-real-africa.com)
• Art and Life Project (U. of Iowa), includes ethnographic videos
• African Music Home Page
• Awesome Tapes from Africa
• Frank Bessem’s Musique d’Afrique
• Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum (Africa section)
• Virtual Museum of Canada (Francophonie section)
• Special Rhythm: Africa and Beyond issue of Music Theory online

Sound Archives and Libraries

• International Library of African Music
• British Library Sound Archives

Home Pages of African Drummers

• Mamady Keita
• C. K. Ladzekpo
• Dagomba Dance Drumming (David Locke, Alhaji Abubakari Lunna)
• Moussa Traore, Malian jembe player
• Conversation with Mor Thiam

Other Drum Resources

• Djoniba Drum and Dance Studio (NY)
• Percussive Arts Society
• Cuban and Caribbean drum and dance workshops
• Maimouna Keita School of African Dance
• Circles and Time: A Theory of Structural Organization of Rhythm
  in African Music, by Willie Anku
• Virtual drum machines
• Sabar homepage
• Sabar drumming and dancing in Japan (also on Facebook)

Miscellaneous

• Franco
• East African Music
• Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan
• Gnawa Stories
• Internet African History Sourcebook
• World Malaria Day

Countries

Mande (Mali, Guinea, etc.)

African Hip Hop

Media

• Channel Africa (news from Africa)
• South African Journal of Musicology

Books

• Africabib (extensive bibliographic database)
• Meabooks.com (hard to get books from Africa)
• Karthala (publisher of French books on Africa)

Organizations, Museums, Artwork, etc.

• African Studies Association Home Page
• Humanities Online, African Arts Home Page
• H-Afr-Teach: info on teaching about Africa
• African Art Exhibit at UVA
• Cutting to the Essence, Shaping for the Fire: Yoruba and Akan Art in Wood
  and Metal
• Art and Life in Africa Project
• Tanzanian Art
• Kennedy Center African Odyssey Interactive
• Tamarin: Art and Africa Online

Islam

• Historical Spread of Islam
• Internet Islamic History Sourcebook