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African Presences I: Music in Africa

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African Presences I: Music in Africa
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  • Music Theory
  • African Hip Hop
  • Mande Music
    • Jembe
    • Guitar/Orchestras
    • Vocalists
  • Drumming
  • Postcolonial
    • Ballets
    • Pan-African Festivals
    • Sound Archives
    • Orchestras
  • Countries

Jembe

A Guide to the Jembe, Eric Charry (1998)

Rainer Polak articles

  • Jenbe Music in Bamako: Microtiming as Formal Model and Performance Practice (1999)
  • Rhythmic Feel as meter: non-Isochronous Beat Subdivision in Jembe Music from Mali (2010)
  • Timing and Meter in Mande Drumming from Mali (2014)

Les Ballets Afrcains

  • at UN (1968)
  • Doundounba
  • Los Angeles (2003)

Ballet d’Afrique Noire (Senegal)

  • extended drumming and dance (1960s)
  • Minuit (1960s)

Mamady Keita

  • Tam Tam Mandingue USA
  • Dununba workshop/party at Mamady Keita’s 
  • workshop solos with Bolocada Conde (Quebec, 2012)
  • Interview and performance (Dublin, 2009)
  • solo private performance (San Diego, CA, 2006)
  • La vie platinée (1987)
  • Djembefola (1991)
  • Petit Mamady Keita
    • Petit Mamady solo
    • Petit Mamady Keita plays for Grand Mamady Keita
    • Petit Mamady and Fanta Konate

Famoudou Konate

  • homepage; ensemble
  • interview (2001)

Adama Drame

  • conducting percussion orchestra at Burkina Faso 50th anniversary celebration

Drissa Kone

  • Sumalen

Papa Ladji Camara

Dununba (in Guinea)

  • Conakry (2008)
  • Conakry (Konoko Sano’s compound)
  • Conakry (shot by Michael Pluznik)
  • Madina, Conakry: Ballet Tayeli
  • Dununba dance (6 minute film)

Rhythm (Foli), a film by Thomas Roebers and Floris Leeuwenberg shot in Baro, Guinea

YOUTUBE Channels

  • Rootsy Records
  • Michael Pluznick
  • DjembeBrasilAfricaRoots
  • amofi54
  • AfricaViva

Reference Sites

  • JEMBE-LIST FAQ
  • DJEMBE-L FAQ
  • Djembe and Mande Music Resource and Reference Page
  • Djembe On Line

Dundun

  • Dramane Sissoko (Khasonka dundun)

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