Sound Archives

African Music Archives news

• Introduction
• Directory of archives
• Challenges

British Library

• Endangered Archives Program
• World and Traditional Music
  • Guinea: Syliphone and RTG streamed recordings
    • Project overview (contains link to Counsel’s 2105 article “Music for a revolution” with full details)

France: Research Center in Ethnomusicology (CREM)

• Sound archives (search afrique and africa)
• Guinea: Musique malinke (Rouget)
• Multimedia presentations

Belgium

• Royal Museum for Central Africa

Cameroon

• Digitalisation project
  • Project details

Ghana

GBC Gramophone Project

Guinea (see British Library and France above)

• Radio Africa (complete discographies)

Namibia

• Digital Namibian Archive

South Africa

• International Library of African Music
• South African Music Archive Project