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African dance
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- African Drum & Dance Workshop - in Cleveland; March 29, 2006; a one-day event,
part of a National Teaching Tour of Michael Marcus and Yalani Bangoura - from NYC to Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Canada.
- African Soul International Dance Academy
Conference - in Cleveland, OH; May 28, 2005 (Memorial Day weekend)
- African Music And Dance Ensemble - directed by the
great African musician, composer and choreographer C. K. Ladzekpo.
- Bi-Okoto Drum and Dance Theatre - internationally known authentic African (Nigerian)
dance company, offering performances, workshops, and classes.
- Diamano Coura West African Dance Company - international
roster of dancers, drummers, musicians, acrobats, singers, stilt-walkers and a newly formed junior company.
- DrumGods - eclectic percussion and dance ensemble featuring rhythms from West
African, Middle Eastern and Latin musical traditions.
- Yahoo! Ile Ife: The Arthur Hall
Collection
- Ishangi Family African Dancers
- Ladzekpo, C.K. - home page of the great African musician, composer
and choreographer, C.K. Ladzekpo of University of California, Berkeley.
- Maimouna Keita School of African Dance - offering classes,
workshops, lectures and performances throughout the Tri-State area (NY, NJ, CT).
- Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago - professional company that performs authentic and
progressive interpretations of contemporary and ancient African and African American dance, music, and folklore.
- Silimbo D'Adeane West African Dance and Drum Company - group of African-rooted
artists, led by Artistic Director Fatou N'Diaye-Davis.
- Yembe - provides information on the practice of djembe and African dance.
- AfricaDance.com - basic information about the form and the Igbodiegwu Acrobatic
Dance Troupe of Nigeria
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African music & musicians
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- Africa on RootsWorld - resources, reviews, and articles on African
music.
- African Australian Music - resources, links and
explanations of African music and instruments.
- African Music Archive - of the Institute of Ethnology and African Studies.
- African Music Hub - includes a discussion group webring, plus links to
African music sites
- African Music Webring - lists African music sites around the world grouped in
a ring and linked together with a simple navigation bar
- African Recording reviews - music writer Cliff Furnald
examines contemporary and traditional recordings
- Africanhiphop.com - platform for information and discussion on hip hop from the
African continent
- Afrodicia
- Afropop Worldwide - worldwide radio program with the latest news and music from
Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas
- DanceDrummer.com - includes resources on drumming, African music, and Anlo Ewe
history.
- East African Music
- Lwanga, Namu - musician, storyteller, and playwright
- Samite of Uganda - traditional East African music featuring flute, kalimba, marimba,
and lutungu. Tour dates, biography, album and contact info.
- T. Endo's African Music Page - biographical information
and discographys of many African bands and musicians including Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti, Baaba Maal, and Youssou N'Dour
- Tetteh, Nii Tettey - Ghanaian musician and teacher shares the music and
history of West Africa and brings study tours to Ghana
- Village Pulse Outpost - digital recordings of west
African drum music
- West African Highlife Band - all-star group of West African music veterans
reviving highlife dance classics
- Zifa - modern African pop music. Aka Mikael Eriksson
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world beat
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- MOBO Awards - offers information on the UK awards that recognize music of black origin.
- @Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music - focuses on African American performers
and composers and on the vocal music forms they influenced, especially opera, art songs, and spiritual arrangements.
- African American Art Song Alliance - the home of interchange between
performers and scholars interested in art song by African-American composers.
- African American Music Collection Titles
- Archives of African American Music and Culture
- BEEM Foundation for the Advancement of Music - stimulating understanding and
appreciation of the music created and/or performed by African Americans through research, lectures and demonstrations, scholarships, and other
awards.
- Center for Black Music Research - documents, preserves, and disseminates
information about the history of music and of musicians in the African diaspora.
- Yahoo! Fisk
University Jubilee Singers
- Georgia Sea Island Singers - sharing slave songs and games,
gospel songs, chants, work songs, and gullah heritage of the Georgia Sea Islands.
- Orchestral Music of African American Composers
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| regions in Africa |
Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Central African
Republic, Chad, Comoro Islands, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt,
Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana,
Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia,
Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania,
Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria,
Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Sao Tome Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, The Gambia, Togo, Tunisia,
Uganda, Western Sahara, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
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directories
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forums
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- African Music Discussion Group, The - a place to discuss African music,
news, recordings, concerts, and more
- Afrofuturism - explores futurist themes in black culture and art. Site includes
listserv information, bibliography, filmography, discography, links, and more.
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