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frank bessem's musiques d'afrique, african music, afrikaanse muziek
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Frank Bessem's African Music:
African music... music of a continent. The diversity in styles and the sheer infinite number of artists makes it impossible to be exhaustive. This is therefore only a selection of musicians of some African countries (mainly Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Congo). The selection is mainly based on what I like ... You'll find complete discographies, and concise biographies of the featured artists and bands. The emphasis is on popular urban African music ...
African Popular Music, Artists, Discographies & CDs. Currently about 240 artists and bands, with over 1775 albums featured of which more than 675 albums featured in detail.
African music... music of a continent. The diversity in styles and the sheer infinite number of artists makes it impossible to be exhaustive. This is therefore only a selection of musicians of some African countries (mainly Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Congo). The selection is mainly based on what I like ... You'll find complete discographies, and concise biographies of the featured artists and bands. The emphasis is on popular urban African music ...
African Popular Music, Artists, Discographies & CDs. Currently about 240 artists and bands, with over 1775 albums featured of which more than 675 albums featured in detail.
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Sep 21, 2006
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BBC Radio 3, Africa on your street:
This is the place to find out about the African music scene in the UK. Our hosts will offer you tips on gigs, clips of their favourite CDs, news and gossip from the studio and the dance floor. Many of our links will take you to other parts of the BBC website where you'll find profiles of big international artists, interviews with UK-based African musicians and lots of music to listen to. Come back here to our hosts' pages and tell us what you think.
This idea for this site came from working on the World on your Street website since its launch in April 2002. World on your Street is a project to uncover music from around the globe happening here in the UK. And when it came to African music, we found so much happening, from Malagasy guitarist Modeste Hugues to South African singer Sonti Mndebele to the Yoruba folksongs of Oludele Olaseinde and his daughters. These first-rate musicians deserved to be better known, and Africa on your Street would help to get their music out to a wider public ...
This is the place to find out about the African music scene in the UK. Our hosts will offer you tips on gigs, clips of their favourite CDs, news and gossip from the studio and the dance floor. Many of our links will take you to other parts of the BBC website where you'll find profiles of big international artists, interviews with UK-based African musicians and lots of music to listen to. Come back here to our hosts' pages and tell us what you think.
This idea for this site came from working on the World on your Street website since its launch in April 2002. World on your Street is a project to uncover music from around the globe happening here in the UK. And when it came to African music, we found so much happening, from Malagasy guitarist Modeste Hugues to South African singer Sonti Mndebele to the Yoruba folksongs of Oludele Olaseinde and his daughters. These first-rate musicians deserved to be better known, and Africa on your Street would help to get their music out to a wider public ...
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Music and Musicians in Eastern and Central Africa:
Some people, especially in the West (Europe and North America), and perhaps some of the musicians themselves, would like to imagine that Afican music has made significant advances since the emigration in the late 1970's to Paris, Brussels, London, Amsterdam and various other U.S cities. There is no doubt the musicians are financially better off, earning many times what they would in their home countries. They are also heard more on radio stations worldwide and live performances to mainly non-African audiences have increased.
Certainly, people like Yousouf Ndour and Papa Wemba have become well known since they started the so called `fusion' of African with Western beats, whatever that means. However, it is also obvious that these `fused' numbers are only `hits' in the Western world and perhaps among the few elitist (read `self- brain washed') youths in some African cities ...
Article by Muttu Mondiya Mama about Congolese and East African musicians and their music.
Some people, especially in the West (Europe and North America), and perhaps some of the musicians themselves, would like to imagine that Afican music has made significant advances since the emigration in the late 1970's to Paris, Brussels, London, Amsterdam and various other U.S cities. There is no doubt the musicians are financially better off, earning many times what they would in their home countries. They are also heard more on radio stations worldwide and live performances to mainly non-African audiences have increased.
Certainly, people like Yousouf Ndour and Papa Wemba have become well known since they started the so called `fusion' of African with Western beats, whatever that means. However, it is also obvious that these `fused' numbers are only `hits' in the Western world and perhaps among the few elitist (read `self- brain washed') youths in some African cities ...
Article by Muttu Mondiya Mama about Congolese and East African musicians and their music.
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Recordiversity, celebrating vintage African music on vinyl:
Some of the finest music ever released on vinyl remains largely unheard only a few decades after its release. Why? Because most of it never found its way out of Africa. This site celebrates African music through rare singles, EPs and albums.
Information and images about collectable records, with the emphasis on seven-inch singles from Africa.
Some of the finest music ever released on vinyl remains largely unheard only a few decades after its release. Why? Because most of it never found its way out of Africa. This site celebrates African music through rare singles, EPs and albums.
Information and images about collectable records, with the emphasis on seven-inch singles from Africa.
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Online Journal for African Music and Popular Culture: Articles, reviews, recent releases, events in Germany, and obituaries.
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Afromix: The Portal of African and Caribbean Cultures : news, music, arts and culture, society, travel ...
Francois Bensignor: (biographies des artistes):
Journaliste spécialisé musique depuis la fin des années 70, a collaboré à de nombreuses revues dans les années 80 dont Paroles et Musiques. Attentif à l'émergence des musiques africaines modernes, suit leur développement internationale pour la presse (Afrique Élite, Trad'MagazineÉ), la radio (RFI), la télévision (Mégamix sur Arte) et publie Sons d'Afrique (éditions Marabout, 1988) ...
Francois Bensignor: (biographies des artistes):
Journaliste spécialisé musique depuis la fin des années 70, a collaboré à de nombreuses revues dans les années 80 dont Paroles et Musiques. Attentif à l'émergence des musiques africaines modernes, suit leur développement internationale pour la presse (Afrique Élite, Trad'MagazineÉ), la radio (RFI), la télévision (Mégamix sur Arte) et publie Sons d'Afrique (éditions Marabout, 1988) ...
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