African Studies Internet Portal 

Indexes more than 200 international periodicals with retrospective citations dating back to 1864.

Identifies articles and abstracts for international music periodicals. Covers a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals. Indexes more than 400 international music periodicals.

Covers 350 international periodicals. One index for authors, proper names, and subjects. Separate annual subject heading list.

Arranged by type of material in a classified sequence. Has author and subject index.

"an online journal for African music that promotes independence and cultural authenticity. It is a collection of music, musicians, literature, oral and written history/philosophy. Founded in 2000."

African Entertainment website with music news and music videos. Site is mainly in French with some content in English.

In French. Innovative, interactive site that requires installation of the Flash Player.

Indepth portal from Stanford University

In-depth blog posts with videos and news from diverse artists around Africa.

German site with some material in English.

Music from Africa and from the diaspora.

Afropop is a radio program, a web site, a searchable database, an international musical archive, a team of researchers, and a travel series to Africa and Latin America. It focuses on African and African Diaspora music.

Articles on music from African news sources.

The British Library Sound Archive holds many sound and video recordings, with over a million discs and thousands of tapes. Includes recordings made in Africa and a searchable catalog.

A multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americans. Its Digital Collection of East African Recordings consists of over 2,000 discrete musical performances.

"Largest university-based ethnographic sound archives in the United States. Its holdings include commercial and field recordings of vocal and instrumental music, folktales, interviews and oral history, as well as videotapes, photographs and manuscripts."

A research institution devoted to the study of music and oral arts in Africa, it preserves thousands of historical recordings going back to 1929 and supports contemporary fieldwork. It is currently digitizing its collections.

In-depth coverage of world music. Includes news, video and radio, and a store for purchasing world music.