Overviews
Africana:
An Encyclopedia of the African
and African American Experience
by Kwame Anthony Appiah (Editor),
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor)
Hardcover - 2144 pages
This amazing reference work contains lots of entries
on music plus an absolute wealth of information on the culture of African
countries and peoples. The African diaspora in the Americas is also covered
in great detail.
Fascinating and highly recommended.
Microsoft
Encarta Africana 2000
by Kwame Anthony Appiah (Editor),
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor)
CD-ROM
This CD-ROM version of the Africana encyclopedia (see above) contains
3,600 articles, 200 sidebars, 2,900 multimedia features, and 800 Web links.
Africa
O-Ye!:
A Celebration of African Music
by Graeme Ewens, Grarme Ewens, Manu Dibango (Foreword)
(via
Europe)
Afropop:
An Illustrated Guide
to Contemporary African Music
by Sean Barlow, Banning Eyre
(via UK,
via Europe)
Africa
and the Blues
by Gerhard Kubik
(via UK,
via Europe)
Africa:
The Garland Encyclopedia
of World Music, Vol 1
by Ruth M. Stone (Editor), James Porter (Editor)
Africa:
Folk Music Atlas
by DNA Media Inc.
Book, CD-ROM and music CD
African Classical Music
by Tunde Jegede
(via UK)
African Drum Music: Adowa
by Kongo Zabana
(via UK)
Africa
in Scott Joplin's Music
by Carol Lems-Dworkin
African Music
by Francis Bebey, J. Bennett
(via UK,
via Europe)
African
Music
by John Gray
African
Music: A Pan-African Annotated Bibliography
by Carol Lems-Dworkin
African
Roots (Traditional Black Music)
by Jerry Silverman, Kenneth B. Clark (Designer)
Black
Chord:Visions of the
Groove Connection Between Afro-Beats,
Rhythm & Blues, Hip Hop, and More
by David Corio, Vivien Goldman
Breakout:
Profiles in African Rhythm
by Gary Stewart
(via UK,
via Europe)
The Da Capo Guide to Contemporary African Music
by Ronnie Graham
(via UK,
via Europe)
Drum
Gahu: An Introduction to African Rhythm
by David Locke
(via UK,
via Europe)
The
Drummer's Path: Moving the Spirit
With Ritual and Traditional Drumming
by Sule Greg Wilson
(via UK,
via Europe)
The
Healing Drum:
African Wisdom Teachings
by Yaya Diallo, Mitchell Hall (Contributor)
(via UK,
via Europe)
The
Music of Africa
by J. H. Kwabena. Nketia, J. H. Kwabeha Nketia
The
Roots of the Blues: An African Search
by Samuel Barclay Charters
(via UK,
via Europe)
Traditional
African and Oriental Music
by Otto Karolyl
(via UK,
via Europe)
The
World of African Music
(Stern's Guide to Contemporary African Music, Vol .2)
by Ronnie Graham
Pygmy Music
Bayaka:
The Extraordinary Music of the Babenzele Pygmies
and Sounds of Their Forest Home
by Louis Sarno
Book and CD
(via UK,
via Europe)
Echoes
of the Forest
(aka Forest Magic: Music of the Central African Pygmies)
by Louis Sarno, Jean-Pierre Hallet
Book and cassette tape
(via UK,
via Europe)
Seize
the Dance!
Baaka
Musical Life and Ethnography of Performance
by Michelle Robin Kisliuk
(via UK,
via Europe)
North Africa
Men
and Popular Music in Algeria:
The Social Significance of Rai
by Marc Schade-Poulsen
(via UK,
via Europe)
The
Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song,
and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century
by Virginia Danielson
(via UK)
A
Trade Like Any Other:
Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt
by Karin Van Nieuwkerk, Karin Van Nieuwkerk, Kathy Van Nieuwkerk
Serpent
of the Nile: Women and Dance in the Arab World
by Wendy Buonaventura, Ibrahim Farrah
Southern Africa
African
Stars: Studies in
Black South African Performance
by Veit Erlmann
Music,
Modernity, and the Global Imagination:
South Africa and the West
by Veit Erlmann
(via UK,
via Europe)
Marabi
Nights: Early South African
Jazz and Vaudeville
by Christopher Ballantine
Nightsong:
Performance, Power, and
Practice in South Africa
by Veit Erlmann
(via UK,
via Europe)
Rituals
of Fertility and the
Sacrifice of Desire: Nazarite Women's
Performance in South Africa
by Carol Ann Muller
Rumba
on the River:
A History of the Popular Music
of The Two Congos
by Gary Stewart
Read Review
(via UK,
via Europe)
The
Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions
of the Shona People of Zimbabwe
by Paul F. Berliner
(via UK,
via Europe)
South
African Music Encyclopedia
by Malan
Venda
Children's Songs:
A Study in Ethnomusicological Analysis
by John Blacking
(via UK,
via Europe)
West Africa
African
Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective
by V. Kofi Agawu, Kofi Agawu
(via Europe)
African Drum Music: Performed by
Master Drummers of the Ghana Dance Ensemble
by Kongo Zabana
(via UK)
African
Rhythm and African Sensibility
by John Chernoff
(via UK,
via Europe)
Dancing
Prophets: Musical Experience
in
Tumbuka Healing
by Steven M. Friedson
(via UK,
via Europe)
Griots
and Griottes: Masters of Words and Music
by Thomas A. Hale
(via UK,
via Europe)
New! Griots
at War: Conflict,
Conciliation, and Caste in Mande
by Barbara G. Hoffman
History
of Juju Music: A History of
an African Popular Music from Nigeria
by T. Ajayi Thomas
(via UK,
via Europe)
New! In
Search of Sunjata: The Mande Oral Epic
As History, Literature and Performance
by Ralph A. Austen (Editor)
Jali
Kunda: Griots of West Africa & Beyond
by Foday Musa Suso, others
Book and CD
Juju:
A Social History and Ethnography
of an African Popular Music
by Christopher Alan Waterman
(via UK,
via Europe)
Lonely
Planet Mali Blues: Traveling to an African Beat
(Lonely Planet Journeys)
(via UK,
via Europe)
New! Mande
Music: Traditional and Modern
Music of the Maninka and Mandinka
of Western Africa
by Eric S. Charry
New! Status
and Identity in West Africa:
Nyamakalaw of Mande
(African Systems of Thought)
by David C. Conrad Barbara E. Frank (Editors)
West
African Pop Roots
by John Collins
(via UK,
via Europe)
Xylophone
Music from Ghana Performance
by Joseph Kobom
Children's Books
Forest
Singer
by Sylvia Sikundar, Alison Astill (Illustrator)
Ages 4-8
The
Singing Man:
Adapted from a West African Folktale
by Angela Shelf Medearis, Terea Shaffer (Illustrator)
Ages 4-8 | 
