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| | African Art on the Internet |
 | | A directory to African music in 100 CDs is a directory arranged by country, name of artists or groups, CD titles, artists (including compilations), style of music, instrument, language, type of music, and label. | | | "The Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) was established in 1982 as an independent non-profit professional association affiliated with the African Studies Association (ASA) in the United States. | | | This site introduces a related CD-ROM project and serves as an online searchable catalog of the Univ. of Iowa's Stanley Collection of African Art. |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/art.html
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| | African Art on the Internet |
| | A directory to African music in 100 CDs is a directory arranged by country, name of artists or groups, CD titles, artists (including compilations), style of music, instrument, language, type of music, and label. | | | "The Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) was established in 1982 as an independent non-profit professional association affiliated with the African Studies Association (ASA) in the United States. | | | This site introduces a related CD-ROM project and serves as an online searchable catalog of the Univ. of Iowa's Stanley Collection of African Art. |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/art.html
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| | African Music on the Internet |
| | An introduction to African music in 100 CDs is a directory arranged by country, name of artists or groups, CD titles, artists (including compilations), style of music, instrument, language, type of music, and label. | | | News about African musicians, a page about Drum magazine, South African pianist, Abdullah Ibrahim, plus "Through a large database of music and artists we offer advertising and production units advice and service in placing African music in their productions." Has an events mailing list for South Africans. | | | African Hit Music TV Watch African music videos 24/7. |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/music.html
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| | Composers of African Descent |
| | Robert Nathaniel Dett was an African American composer, pianist and music educator who was born in Canada but moved to the U.S. as a youth. | | | ELLINGTON, DUKE (1899-1974) U.S. Duke Ellington was an African American composer, performer and band leader best known for "big band" music. | | | His mother was an African slave and his father a French plantation owner. |
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http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/others~ns4.html
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| | African Music Featuring The Latest African CD's & DVD's. |
| | From soukous (Congo), Makossa (Cameroon), Highlife (Ghana, Nigeria), Mapouka (Ivory Coast) to music from South Africa, North African Rai. | | | Most of our African music dvd's are region 2 dvds and require a dvd player that can play region 2 dvd's. | | | African Music Featuring The Latest African CD's & DVD's. |
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http://www.panafricanallstars.com
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| | Pan American Congress |
| | American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife," the Center incorporates the Archive of Folk Culture, established at the Library in 1928 as a repository for American Folk Music. | | | The African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress) This exhibit marks the publication of a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black history and culture. | | | american congress american bowling congress congress bowling congress singapores congress sexual congress congress representative congress system united states congress world congress psychotherapy american greetings american american plastic |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Pan_American_Congress.html
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| | Harlem Renaissance |
| | What began as a series of literary discussions in lower Manhattan (Greenwich Village) and upper Manhattan (Harlem) was first known as the 'New Negro Movement.' Later termed the Harlem Renaissance, this movement brought unprecedented creative activity in writing, art, and music and redefined expressions of African-Americans and their heritage. | | | This 2-part resource is part of the Library of Congress' African American Odyssey project. | | | 2) African-American Art and the Political Dissent During the Harlem Renaissance by V. Belton |
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http://www.42explore2.com/harlem.htm
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| | BBC NEWS World Africa Mbeki told to understand W Africa |
| | Southern Africans are not as warm as West Africans, their food is not as spicy, and their music does not make the pulse vibrate like West African music. | | | French President Jacques Chirac has told South African leader Thabo Mbeki to "understand the soul of West Africa" to broker a peace deal in Ivory Coast. | | | African leaders are in office for their own interest I am blaming them for all the problems affecting Africa today I dare to hope for the future of my Africa, though sometimes it is not easy. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/world/africa/4232551.stm
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| | South African Jazz: Timeline |
| | Christianity would affect the development of a musical South African musical identity in many ways: an emphasis on literacy, the regular performance of hymns and spirituals, the use of the organ and harmonium, and the freedom to perform music and dance on Sundays. | | | After being performed at the 1912 inauguration of the South African Native National Congress (later the ANC), it is adopted as the official song of the African National Congress in 1925. | | | The South African government declares a new State of Emergency to quell the unrest. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1953
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| | South African Jazz: Start Here |
| | timeline of South African history helps put the situation in perspective—musically, politically, and otherwise. | | | This special section is devoted to South African jazz, which has prospered for several decades and developed a distinctive character all its own. | | | And we've also included an enormous list of links to all manner of sites related to South Africa and its music, should you feel the need to surf the net and learn a bit more. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1957
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| | African Music and Drumming Resources on the Web |
| | African Music Archive, Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Mainz University, Germany | | | Africart: concert schedules of African musicians around the world | | | Circles and Time: A Theory of Structural Organization of Rhythm in African Music, by Willie Anku |
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http://echarry.web.wesleyan.edu/africother.html
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| | Program in African American Studies |
| | The contributions of people of African descent are considerable human achievements in the areas of literature, philosophy, science, music, politics, and visual culture. | | | The Program in African American and Diaspora Studies (PAADS) offers an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and comparative study of the histories, literatures, music, visual cultures, and politics of people of African descent around the world. | | | Concentrators in African American and Diaspora Studies go on to pursue Graduate Studies in a variety of fields as well as careers in government, journalism, business, law, K-12 and post-secondary education, engineering and public service. |
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http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/aframst
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| | African Studies Guide |
| | African music is included in the collections of the Heilbrun Music and Media Library, located on the fourth floor of the addition to the Woodruff Library. | | | Produced under the auspices of the African Studies Association, this directory lists 437 sources of information and documentation on Sub-Saharan Africa in the United States. | | | AFRICANA CONFERENCE PAPER INDEX is a searchable database maintained by Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern of their sizable collection of conference proceedings. |
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http://web.library.emory.edu/subjects/studies/african/africanstudiesguide.html
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| | Amsterdam News - Article - international news |
| | A new stamp has been pressed; a ditty penned by the renowned trumpeter Hugh Masekela and a parallel showcase of African talent in areas as diverse as fashion, film and music. | | | South Africas President Thabo Mbeki will be the inaugural chairperson of the African Union and will hold his position for a year. | | | Second, while Madagascar has been banned from the festivities for its political instability, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was ushered in without a murmur, despite growing evidence of continued rights abuses in the Southern African country. |
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http://www.amsterdamnews.org/News/article/article.asp?NewsID=2457&sID=12
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| | AmaBoston Community Site |
| | Source: Boston.com ONE OF THE last century's most influential political proclamations, the South African Freedom Charter, celebrates its bicentennial this month, and Pius Langa, the chief justice of the country's highest court, is in Boston to mark the occasion. | | | In recent years, he's gained a following in the United States through his albums on the world music label Putumayo, but with his latest release, ''Nhava," he's joined the high-powered roster of Heads Up Africa, which includes the long-established international stars Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. | | | Johan Kriek and Kevin Curren, former SA stars who took out US citizenships in the apartheid years to avoid being barred from the world circuit, won the doubles title for men over the age of 45 for a third consecutive year. |
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http://www.amaboston.com
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| | Search List :: Turner South |
| | A former defensive tackle for the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals, Mike Reid was one of the most sensitive writers of romantic songs in contemporary country music. | | | Steele credits a diverse list of stars as his musical influences, from Thomas Dolby and Los Lobos to Led Zeppelin and Buck Owens. | | | Most Southerners know their music, but even these facts may be new to some. |
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http://www.turnersouth.com/search/list/0,,,00.html
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| | Search List :: Turner South |
| | Brotha's Keepa/Inner City South is pleased to announce that on September 10, 2005 they will be hosting a spoken word/soul music evening featuring The Last Poets at the New Daisy Theatre in Memphis, Tenn. | | | Steele credits a diverse list of stars as his musical influences, from Thomas Dolby and Los Lobos to Led Zeppelin and Buck Owens. | | | Most Southerners know their music, but even these facts may be new to some. |
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http://www.turnersouth.com/search/list/0,,,00.html
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| | African Music Encyclopedia - Related African Links |
| | FESAAM - Festival of African and African-American Music, Louisianna, United States | | | African Music Archive is brought to you by the Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. | | | African MarketPlace and Vultural Faire - annual end-of summer festival in Los Angeles, California, United States |
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| | Community Resources - Black History |
| | The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional group of sixteen countries, founded in 1975. | | | Urban Think Tank is a community based home for a body of Hip Hop thinkers, committed to Hip Hop culture, Rap Music, Black Music and Black culture, Popular culture & more. | | | Black History - Caribbean +Black History - United Kingdom +Black History - United States +Civil Rights Writers |
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http://emeagwali.com/links/blackhistory.html
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| | Open Directory - Society: Ethnicity: African |
| | House of Ankhara - Roi Kwabena's text on ancient Nubia, the Kushites, and the pervasive African and indigenous Indian influences on Caribbean customs, music, and religion. | | | African Community International Center - An international membership organization focusing on Africa, her people, resources and relationship with the rest of the world. | | | Peoples and Cultures of Africa- Provides insight into the aesthetics, beliefs, and histories of West African cultures, including the family of languages of the Mande, Yoruba, and Cameroonian. |
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http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/African
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| | Steven Watson, The Harlem Renaissance (1995) |
| | The Harlem Renaissance saw the flowering of African-American literature, music, dance, art, and social commentary in the neighborhood newly transformed by the Great Migration of African-Americans to the North during World War I. Nightclubs, community centers, cafes, publishing houses, and galleries sprang up in Harlem amidst a tremendous level of energy and excitement. | | | Find context for the growth of Harlem as an African American community in the Library of Congress' materials for understanding the Great Migration of African Americans to Chicago. | | | While many still refer to Harlem as the unofficial capital of Black America, during the period from 1919 to the Great Depression, Harlem reigned as the unrivaled center of African-American culture. |
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http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/harlem.html
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| | Black History & Classical Music |
| | The African American conductor Paul Freeman is Founding Musical Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta, an unusually inclusive orchestra whose mission is "Musical Excellence Through Diversity". | | | February is Black History Month in Jamaica and the United States, and African Heritage Month in Canada. | | | For purposes of this site, African Americans are considered to be people of African descent who are born anywhere in the Americas. |
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http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/History.html
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| | Lonely Planet World Guide Destination Central African Republic |
| | Traditional African music is not generally particularly accessible to the Western ear, and although it's full of complex rhythms and harmonies, it is not melodic and may sound as if very little is going on. | | | Bokassa squandered foreign loans on prestige projects, and his most outrageous fantasy was to have himself crowned emperor in a renamed Central African Empire. | | | Africans generally place great emphasis on clothing, and a trip to the CAR is a treat to see the quality of people's dress. |
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http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/africa/central_african_republic/printable.htm
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| | AmaBoston Community Site |
| | Source: Boston.com ONE OF THE last century's most influential political proclamations, the South African Freedom Charter, celebrates its bicentennial this month, and Pius Langa, the chief justice of the country's highest court, is in Boston to mark the occasion. | | | In recent years, he's gained a following in the United States through his albums on the world music label Putumayo, but with his latest release, ''Nhava," he's joined the high-powered roster of Heads Up Africa, which includes the long-established international stars Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. | | | And to cap a great tournament for South Africans, a former Pretoria player, Ellis Ferreira, teamed up with Paul Haarhuis, of the Netherlands, to win the 35 years and older menâs doubles category. |
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http://www.amaboston.com
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| | Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is an anarchist literature mail order project that publishes and distributes classic and contemporary anarchist books, pamphlets, music, and videos in the Southern African region. | | | The Federation's groups are made up of both blacks and whites who are majority, some of whom are unemployed or students. | | | This page was last modified 17:38, 7 May 2005. |
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http://www.kernersville.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Zabalaza_Anarchist_Communist_Federation
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| | Africanhiphop.com :: Hip hop from the motherland :: African Rap |
| | Filmmaker John Fredericks from Rainbow Circle Films visited Holland together with Devious wife Natalie and her child and collected additional footage including interviews with people who had worked with Devious, recordings of his performances and a music video he did of his song 'Raak wys'. | | | This site, originally called 'Rumba-Kali Home of Pan African Hip Hop' was initiated in February 1997 as a platform for information and discussion on hip hop from the African continent. | | | The documentary will be shown on South African television SABC on Monday the 6th of March at 22 hrs. |
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http://www.africanhiphop.com
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| | Pan-African Association of Chicago |
| | Assist the African community in maintaining its cultural heritage through music, art, dance, culinary, and literary skills. | | | Enable Chicago's African immigrants and refugees to form as a cohesive group, thus building community self-reliance, and empowering individuals. | | | Enable African refugees and immigrants to live well-adjusted, fulfilling lives as integral components of American society. |
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| | Alan Paton |
| | Alan Stewart Paton (11th January 1903 - 12th April 1988), South African author and founder in 1953 of the South African Liberal Party, noted for his opposition to the Apartheid system. | | | Cry, The Beloved Country was cinematized twice (1951, 1995), and was the basis for the Broadway piece Lost in the Stars (adaptation by Maxwell Anderson, music by Kurt Weill). | | | Liberalism I - Liberalism in countries II - Liberal parties III - Liberal thinkers IV Introduction article |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/a/al/alan_paton.html
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