African Music - Bibliography


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Bebey, Francis
African Music: A People Art
New York, USA: L. Hill, 1975

Chernoff, John Miller
African Rhythm and African Sensibility
Chicago, USA: University of Chicago, 1979

Fanshawe, David
African Sanctus
London, UK: Collins and Harvill Press, 1975

Lems-Dworkin, Carol
African Music: A Pan-African Annotated Bibliography
London, UK: Hens Zell Publishers, 1991

Nketia, J.H. Kwabena
Sources of Historical data on the Musical Cultures of Africa
In "Yaoundé: African Music: Meeting in Yaoundé (Cameroon), 23-27 February 1970", UNESCO, Paris 1972

Nketia, J.H. Kwabena
The Music of Africa
London, UK: Victor Gollancz, 1975; New York, USA: W.W. Norton, 1974

Nketia, J.H. Kwabena
The Musical Languages of Subsaharan Africa
In "Yaoundé: African Music: Meeting in Yaoundé (Cameroon), 23-27 February 1970", UNESCO, Paris 1972

Weman, Henry
African Music and the Church in Africa
Uppsala, Sweden: Appelbergs Boktryckeri AB, 1960

Wilson, Sule Greg
The Drummer's Path: Moving the Spirit with Ritual and Traditional Drumming
Rochester, Vermont, USA: Destiny Books, 1992


 
 
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