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The archive at the Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, opened in 1991, has a collection of modern African popular music recordings and videos. The collection includes c.400 East African records, a collection of 716 78rpm records of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service. Also covers Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Zambia; "Zaire is given special attention as the Institute generally has a long tradition in Central African Studies." Publishes, Ntama, Journal of African Music and Popular Culture. Has a 16 page report by Dr. Wolfgang Bender on the history of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service and a history of its 716 recordings from Sierra Leone, Ghana, Zaire, Nigeria and other countries. Has links to numerous other African music, musician, and ethnomusicology sites and information on courses offered. [KF] http://ntama.uni-mainz.de/~ama/ African Music Encyclopedia Music from Africa and the African Diaspora. Has photographs and biographies of musicians, a glossary of African styles of music, a directory of distributors and places to buy music. By Janet Planet. http://africanmusic.org/ African Music Group Discussion group on African music. Established in November 1995, has over 800 members. http://www.africanmusicgroup.com/ African Music Home Page - Toshiya Endo Discographies on musicians from Nigeria and Senegal. Maintained by Toshiya Endo, a professor of biochemistry. http://biochem.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~endo/africa.html African Music Pages - Alisdair MacRae Birch "Featuring West African Highlife, Palm Wine and Central and East African Soukous." Information on kinds of music styles with links to Amazon.com cd pages, some audio clips.
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