AFRICAN MUSIC AND CULTURE RESOURCES

AFRICAN MUSIC	GENERAL RESOURCES
Genres/Styles and Bibliographies of black composers, etc. from CMBR Black Composers' Site Global African Music--Living Encyclopedia African Music Encyclopedia--1---1 African Music Encyclopedia --2 Afric Music(Encarta) African music links from E. Charry  African music links from Stanford East African Music links Coral Agatucci's links to African Music Learning West Afric Percussion AFRICAN MUSIC GENRES Other links--1l  Intro to Ewe music and culture Music in Anlo-Ewe Funerals Sights and Sounds of Africa database 1909-195 Congo Expedition Exhibition Another tour of AFRICA (smithsonian, Museum of African Art) POP AND RAP DDA	D .Clickable Map of Africa/countries Country Profiles--1 Country Profiles --2 DIGITAL BOOKS ON AFRICA Directory of African.Studies Scholars Database of African Scholars Nordic Database on Africa Ethnic Groups/Languages-- World Data SWAHILI POPULAR CULTURE ARCHIVE GENERAL INFORMATION ON AFRICAN SOCIETIES AND CULTURES http://www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/identity/africa.html http://www.dia.org/collections/aonwc/africanart/menwhodanceaswomen.html http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline2.htm  http://afrikaworld.net/afrel/index.html http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/resources/vpa.html  AFRICAN ART & AESTHETICS 1. Do Non-Western Cultures Have Words for Art? An Epistemological Prolegomenon to the Comparative Study of Philosophies of Art (Wilfried van Damme)http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/philos/ssla/papers/vandamme.html  And/Or: Art by Another Name: The Identification of Art Across Cultures  http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/philos/ssla/papers/novitz.html (David Novitz)  2. African Art:Aesthetics and Meaning (online exhibition with essay summary on aesthetics)  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html  3. African Culture and Aesthetics   http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/resources/hg/aesthetics.html http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/explore/  http://www.temple.edu/jaac/  http://www.aesthetics-online.org/  http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/philos/ssla/papers/vandamme.html
POPULAR MUSIC AND RAP IN AFRICA* Afropop (popular music of Africa/Diaspora) (RAP IN AFRICA) African rap in general European Research on Rap in Africa Rap in African/Overseas Countires Rap in South Africa Rap in South Africa--2 * Visit each or "google" each country name to locate current music, radio, and tv resosurces
	·RITES OF PASSAGE http://www.balchinstitute.org/museum/rites/art.html http://www.magellantraders.com/masks-afinitiation.html  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html  Exhibitions on Rites of Passage involving masks/visual arts  http://www.mawasi.com/NCACRoP/RoP.html  Research on rites of passage in African American society  http://www.balchinstitute.org/museum/rites/akan.html Edin Toa: Akan Baby-naming Ceremony (From an interview with Akan priestess Yaa Nson Opare, conducted by Steven Zeitlin, New York City, 1992)  Funerals  http://www.balchinstitute.org/museum/rites/african.html Case Study--JAZZ FUNERALS: African Funeral and Memorial Traditions in America  Other resources /Diaspora  http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/K-12/African_Dance_19546.html http://www.artslynx.org/dance/afro.htm http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/griot/oliver.html