World Music:

Afro-Caribbean Musics:   Devoted to the promotion of the Afro-Caribbean culture and includes:  Calendar of African Show, Introduction to African music in 100 CDs,  Afro-Caribbean Music Guide (By Artists, By Styles, By Instruments, By Country, By Labels, and By Years), Bibliography, Scores, Midi Files, and Lyrics.
http://www.mediaport.net/Music/index.en.html

African Music Archive:  (The Institute of Ethnology and African Studies):  Excellent site, especially African Music Resources Online  link [http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ama_links.html] which includes: Websites related to African music, Ethnomusicology links, Newsgroups centered around African music, and Searching the net links.
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/

Albion Records homepage:  contains information on New Albion artists, and includes bio, discography, collections, and appearances listings.
http://www.newalbion.com/

The All Music Guide:  the Internet version of the All Music Guide.  Categorized listings include essays and articles, a music glossary, and definitions and descriptions of 1,400 musical styles.
http://www.allmusic.com/

Arabic Music Info Source:  includes reviews, places to buy, and sound files.
http://members.aol.com/amisource/

Asia on Roots World:  reviews, interviews and other Asian/middle-eastern music.  Includes Reviews of recordings from or influenced by Asia (Japan and Okinawa, Indonesia, China and Nepal, Tibet, Central Asia and Russia, Asian Sub-Continent (India, Pakistan, Nepal, etc), Middle East and Persia, South East Asia (Viet Nam, Thailand, Burma, Laos, etc...), General Asia and Middle East (cross-national fusions);  Feature Articles with such diverse topics as pop music styles, throat singers in Tuva, the influence of Indian music on jazz, the music of Pakistan, Latin music in Japan, and Vietnamese music.  A featured artists is Jin Hi Kim: a Korean komungo master, Kim is also an adventurous composer of new music (see: Bi-Cultural Chamber Music oodiscs #24 LIVING TONES: JIN HI KIM  [http://www.hear.com/o.o./oo24.html], and sponsoring labels include Mabel's Music (retail mail order), Original Music, Music Of The World, Traditional Crossroads (music of the middle east), and Kado Records includes some Australian and New Zealand.

Asian Pops Internet Resources:  (Tatsumi Hosokawa, Tokyo, Japan):  searchable database with two categories - general and commercial, and numerous links.
http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/asian_inet_e.html

British Forum for Ethnomusicology:  devoted to the study of music and dance from all parts of the world.
http://www.soas.ac.uk/Centres/Music/rw4bfe.html

Celts.dk:  Celtic art, music, and literature.
http://www.celts.dk/celts/

Ceolas Celtic Music Archive:   the largest online collection of information on celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites.  Tune listings, artist biographies, instrument guides, reviews, and sound samples.
http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html

Ethnomusicology Bibliographic Guide:   (John McGinness, University of California, Santa Barbara Library): includes indexes, dissertations, guides, glossaries, and discographies.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/guides/ethno.html

Ethnomusicology Research Digest:  periodical for professionals, librarians and graduate students in the field of ethnomusicology.
http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Newsletters/EthnoMusicology/

Ethnomusicology Resources on the Web:  includes academic and commercial resources.  Includes the following categorized links: Areas of the World (African Music, Drumming, Art, etc., Indonesian Music, Caribbean and Latin American Music, South Asian Music, Australia and Oceania Music, East Asian Music, West Asian Music, European Music, and American Music); Academic Resources (Scholarly Music Societies, Organizations, and Institutions, Extensive University Links (including Music Library catalogs) for Music Research on the Web, Ethnologue (Languages of the World) Searches on the Web, Jaclin Plus: UNCG Library Online Catalog and Gateway to Databases, Library of Congress National Digital Library, Ethnomusicology online, a new Web journal of ethnomusicology, University Ethnomusicologists with home pages, Fair Use Guidelines for Academics,  Encyclopedia Britannica Online, World Fact Book 1995 (CIA maps and information), Rap dictionary,     Automatic translator for European languages, Globe Online: Tour du Monde; French Press Agency information about most countries around the world, Newspapers from Around the World, Online Foreign Newspapers, Net Radio, The Commercial Sector, CDs, Videos, Musical Instruments, and Groups); Miscellaneous (Multi Contact, a guide to the francophone inforoute, including African countries on the web, Database of Arts-Related Sites on the Web (Artswire), The Dirty Linen Gig Guide (Africafete etc.), That Neanderthal flute, Harmony Central (shareware for musicians), A List of Lists on the Internet, Health, Maps, Air Tickets, and other resources for the real world traveler, Guitar, World Music Magazines and Major Links, Music Conferences and Festivals, Research on the practice of FGM (female genital mutilation), Online Music and Art courses (Women, Africa, etc.), Ted's excellent adventure, and Creating a web page.
http://www.uncg.edu/~charrye/ethno.html

Folk Roots:  the world's leading roots, folk and world music magazine.  Categories include:  Charts & Lists | Album Reviews | Competition | Festivals List | Netrooting | About Folk Roots | Folk Roots FAQ.  Acts as a media sponsor for the following events:  Reading's annual WOMAD festival (highly-reputed worldwide series, bringing together music and people from all cultures in a forward-looking celebration), Sidmouth International Festival Of Folk Arts (a seaside kaleidoscope of hundreds of music and dance events from the most traditional English to modern roots music worldwide, from tiny pub events to a giant arena), Womex (the worldwide music expo, the biggest professional conference, showcase tradefair event exclusively dedicated to world, roots, folk, ethnic, traditional and local of all time.
http://www.froots.demon.co.uk/

Global Pop:  updated list of links from Timothy D. Taylor’s (Columbia University) book Global Pop:  World Music, World Markets.  London and New York:  Routledge, 1997.
http://www.columbia.edu/~tt327/Global_Pop/Global_Pop.html

Goatrance:   a site devoted to Goa music with extensive links to psy-trance sites.
http://home1.swinet.se/~11354.index.htm

Harvard University Archive of World Music:  (Virginia Danielson, Curator): a special collection of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University, devoted to collecting commercial and field recordings of ethnic and folk musics, with a special emphasis on the musics of Asia and the Middle East.  It also has substantial holdings of Anglo-American ballads and songs, and includes the following categories: Asia and the Middle East, English and Anglo-American Ballads, The Laura Boulton Collection, The James A. Rubin Collection, and The Sema Vakf Collection.
http://www.rism.harvard.edu/MusicLibrary/AWM/AWM.html

Hearts of Space:  ( Steven Hill, producer):   excellent site, especially useful is the radio show playlist archives.
http://www.hos.com/radio.html

Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music:  the largest university-based ethnographic sound archives in the United States.  Its holdings cover a wide range of cultural and geographical areas, and include commercial and field recordings of vocal and instrumental music, folktales, interviews, and oral history, as well as videotapes, photographs, and manuscripts.
http://www.indiana.edu/~libarchm/

International Council for Traditional Music:   organizes conferences, colloquia and study group worldwide on ethnomusicological, ethnochoreological and  related themes; a UNESCO NGO.
http://www.music.columbia.edu/~ictm/

Island Records Apache Indians Page:  CD release information about this music, a blending of traditional Bhangra music fused Reggae music and the music of the mainstream pop world.
http://www.apache-indian.co.uk/

Kronos Quartet Fan Web:  Includes lists, discographies, a composers listing, and great images and sound samples.
http://www.lochnet.com/clients/gs/kq.html

Music in Croatia:  Sound files of Croatian music.  Files are in SUN audio file format (u-law, 8kHz).  Use SOX program (you can examine README file, or download 169 K of tarred and compressed source) to convert them to other formats. PC users may use COOL151.ZIP program (712 K) to play, edit and convert audio files.  Genres include pop, rock, dance, folk, and miscellaneous.
http://www.hr/music/music.html

Nachda Punjab Bhangra Homepage:  Bhangra is the form of folk music and dance that originates from the province of Punjab, in India, for celebrating the harvest.   This music preserves the historical traditions and fuses modern elemets, producing what is recognized as the "modern" form of bhangra.
http://www.golden.net/~jheeta/bhangra.htm

New Native:  World Cafe Production's page about the evolution of music from the past, present and future with links to traditional and progressive music sites.
http://www.wcpworld.com/native/sounds.htm

Norwegian Music Information Centre:  "This music is getting much more exposure, in the wake of Finland's Varttina and the Sami musician Mari Boine, as well as the Lindley/Kaiser Sweet Sunny North collection.  For my money, some of the most powerful acoustic music you'll hear for a while."  Includes: Catalogues of printed music,        Address guide to music in Norway, Biographies - Norwegian composers, Articles on the Norwegian musical scene,        Information about NMIC, Music links to Norway, ULTIMA Festival, NoTAM home page, Norsk Filmmusikk, Database, Norsk Jazzarkiv, Norsk Visearkiv, and Forum for Norsk Musikk.  Member of IAMIC - International Association of Music Information Centres.
http://www.muw.edu/~jcoe/cmr/www.notam.uio.no/nmi.index.html

Obo Addy:  Biograpgy of Ghana musician from a very large and musical family.  His father was a wonche which is like a priest or medicine man; he had ten wives and fifty-five children, including Obo and Mustapha. Obo Addy was recently (October 1996) awarded a FELLOWSHIP and a grant in Washington, D.C. by the National Endowment for the Arts.  Includes a discography.
http://www.teleport.com/~flyheart.oboaddy.htm

Online Sources for Ethnomusicological Information:  comprehensive listing including databases, area studies, archives, journals and other Web sites.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Musicology/Ethnomusicology/

OYE: World Music Resources:   (Lisa N. Johnston, Sweet Briar College Library):  includes journals and radio stations with RealAudio, excellent links organized by continent.
http://world-music.sbc.edu/

Peace through World Music:  global musicians arise and express the vision of mankind as the leaves of one tree.  Includes MIDI Page and information about Community Drumming.
http://rhythmweb.com/peace/

The Philippine Popular Music Page:   with information on Banig and other musicians.
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~flip/pop.html

Real World Records:  Searchable database for extensive catalogue of world music.
http://realworld.on.net/

Scatterlings:  The music of the music of Johnny Clegg and the bands Julluka and Savuka (South African music) with numerous links/
http://www.teleport.com/~sheilam/

Shanahchie Records:   Extensive catalogue of diverse albums and videos, spanning the entire musical spectrum: Celtic, World, Jazz, Latin, Ska, Reggae, Blues, Folk, Americana, Rock, Klezmer, Cajun and more.
http://www.shanachie.com/

Smith, Chris:  Home Page:  (Indiana university):  Excellent site, with information on Chris's course: Z103 "Popular Musics of the Non-Western World," a collection of World-music Resources on the Internet, and Articles for the Bloomington Voice.  Numerous links, including various aspects of technique, playing history, and styles.  Also, information on recordings:  Altramar (medieval music ensemble), Amandla Ugetsi (African jazz), Las (Afro-Celtic music), The Benevolent Order for Music of the Baroque a/k/a The B.O.M.B. Ensemble, and TAARAB (Near-Eastern music).  Particularly interesting is his paper on world music pedagogy,  "Teaching Sound[ly]: Approaches to World Music," presented at the 1996 International Workshop "Crossroads of Tradition," Bloomington, June 1996, and sponsored by the US Information Agency.   Also see his abstract for "Broadway the Hard Way: Techniques of allusion in music by Frank Zappa"  [National meetings, American Musicological Society, Minneapolis, MN, October 1994; College Music Symposium, October 1995].
http://www.indiana.edu/~smithcj/

Society for Ethnomusicology:  promotes the research, study, and performance of music in all historical periods and cultural contexts.
http://www.indiana.edu/~ethmusic/

Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth:  (Carnegie-Mellon University:  Pittsburgh):  a non-profit group that promotes and distributes music, dance, films etc., into local university communities.
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu:8001/org/macay/home

University of Oregon School of Music Information Server:  excellent searchable database for Music Resources, with links to an outstanding collection of Music resources located at Rice University, and one of the most extensive lists on line, the Harmony Music list, from San Diego.  The index includes:  Research:  (The American Gamelan Institute, GEMM, The Global Electronic Music MarketplaceSearch for internet resources and unusual music for sale, Jazz Online, CAIRSS for Music database of music research literature, CERL Sound Group (engineering), Multimedia Information, Ethnomusicology Research Digest, Indian Classical Music, Batish Institute of Indian  Music and Fine Arts, Music and Brain Information Database (MBI), On-Line Music Database, music FAQ's from  Ohio State, The Opera Information Server, Music Files - Berklee College of Music, and Indian Classical Music.  Fun: sound utility archives, FolkBook, Nysernet, Fun Stuff & Multimedia, Internet Guide to Popular Music, (McKenzie & Coleman (UMich) , The Bazaar, Digital Tradition Folk Song Database, Folk Music, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Music Archive, WNUR-FM Jazz Information Server, and Jammin' Reggae Archives.  Instrumental:   Drums and Percussion server, Acoustic Guitar Digest, Bagpipe Archives - Dartmouth College Dept. of Computer Science, The Bottom Line Archive (Bass), The Classical Guitar Home Page, The Flamenco Guitar Home Page, and The A Cappella page.  Marketing:   Self-designed Tours, Internet Underground Music Archive-The original Internet Music server, The Wire, The Clazzax Classical Music with an Attitude-David Bluefield, N-Fusion records, Wood & Wire - Indie Music on the World Wide Web, American Records, Breakfast Records, Mammoth Records, Nettwerk Records, Musicbase, Soundwire, The World Square Music Collection, Lark In The Morning World Music Catalog, Articles, and Playing Tips.  MIDI:   The MIDI Home Page, MIDI utility archives, MIDI FTP from Berkeley NetJam (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), Information Archives of Classical Midi Sequences, and The classics in Midi form.
http://music1.oregon.edu/musres.html

The Weekly Mail & Guardian:   a South newspaper, published nationwide each Friday morning, aimed at serious readers, specializes in Political analysis, investigative reporting, Southern African news, comprehensive coverage of local arts, music and popular culture.
http://www.mg.co.za.mg/

World Fusion Music Links:  Links page for the world fusion music movement, which seeks to create exciting new music by combining ideas from many of the world's traditions.
http://www.ancient-future.com/links/index.html

World Music:  International Internet Radio World Index.
http://goan.com/music.html

World Music: The Rough Guide:  Companion site to the excellent book edited by Simon Brougthon, Mark Ellingham, David Muddyman and Richard Trillo.  London:  Penguin Books, repr. 1995 (chapters on The Celtic Word, From the Baltic to the Balkans, Mediterranean and Maghreb, The Nile and the Gulf, The Indian Subcontinent, West Africa, Central and East Africa, Southern Africa, The Far East, The Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Australia and the Pacific.)
http://www-2.roughtguides.com/worldmusic/index.html

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