African Presences I: Music in Africa

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)
• 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)