ONLINE RESOURCES

LINKS TO AFRICAN MUSIC WEB SITES:

• Books on African Music - Greenwood Publishing Group

• The Norwegian Council for Africa's African Music Index

• International Library of African Music

• John Blacking's Venda Music Web Site (Venda Girls Initiation School)

• BBC's "About Music" Feature on African Musical Instruments -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutmusic/features/africa/

• Pan-African Society for Musical Arts Education (PASMAE) Web Site -- a project supported by the International Society for Music Education

 

• Links to South African Music and Music Education Sites

http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/culture/music.htm

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/music.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_South_Africa

http://www.ukzn.ac.za/music/amp.html

• Teach African Music on Xylophones (Information Resource)

• Using African Log Xylophones in the Class Room (Article) by J. Kruger: Dept of Music, Potchefstroom University

• RhythmWeb: The Djembe (African Drum) -- http://www.rhythmweb.com/djembe/index.html

• West African Drumming and Vocal Styles (Silver-Burdett Making Music) -- http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/cultures/westafr.html

• Schools Touring Program (arts2go) -- the teacher notes downloads are particularly useful -- http://pm.rav.net.au:2000/erave1/arts2go/downloadfiles.asp?RAVUserId=

• There is also an impressive page of Africa links at http://aboutdisa.ukzn.ac.za/links.htm

AFRICAN MUSIC RESOURCES AVAILABLE AT UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN MELBOURNE:

• Deakin University Library holdings

• University of Melbourne Library holdings

AFRICAN SONG REPERTOIRE SOURCES IN THE ABC SING BOOKS:

• A listing from the SING Index of Songs (1975-2003) for "Traditional South African" -- these African songs are available in the SING books cited in the index information. 

• A listing from the SING Index of Songs (1975-2003) for "Africa" -- the search list here also includes several African-American songs which are available in the SING books which are not relevant but the list also includes some "Traditional African" songs not included in the previous list. 

ARTICLES ON AFRICAN MUSIC

• Akrofi (2003), "Tonal harmony as a Colonizing Force in the Music of Africa" -- (PDF -1.08mb)

• Ntaka (2003), "Southern African Through the Eyes fo a Song" --  (PDF -93k)

• "Introduction" (by Christine Lucai) to Reader of South African Music (ed. by Christine Lucai), Cambridge Scholars Press, 2004 -- (PDF - 157k)

• The Talking Drum, a downloadable periodical full of music, news, and musical arts education ideas from Africa -- http://aboutdisa.ukzn.ac.za/samap/talkingdrum.htm

LINKS TO WORLD MUSIC WEB SITES:

• Music Research Institute - http://music-research-inst.org

• Songs for Teaching - using music to promote learning http://SongsforTeaching.com/

LINKS TO AFRICAN VISUAL ART WEB SITES:

• An African Indigenous Art website - http://www.homegirlinc.com/

 

REFERENCE INFORMATION

• http://africanmusic.org/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Africa

• http://africanmusic.org/home.html

• http://www.questia.com/library/music-and-performing-arts/african-music.jsp