African Music

Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, the material in this collection includes thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study

Traditional, popular, and contemporary world. Includes Hugh Tracy's ILAM (International Library of African Music) project, Smithsonian Global Sound, and articles in the Garland Encylopedia of World Music are concurrently searched and retrieved.

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Discover Africa Music - One Country at a Time
African Tribal Music and Modern Genres

A project of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. AMP provides an on-line comprehensive reference guide to more than 10,000 films, videos, and other audiovisual materials concerning Africa (both Sub-Saharan and North Africa). It includes film and video productions made in Africa and around the world.

In “Wax & Gold,” director Britton Caillouette of Farm League, uses the country’s rich tradition of music to contextualize the shared histories and traditions of the people, the culture, and their most famous beverage.
Shot on multiple film formats and using a tapestry of sounds, Caillouette weaves together these expressive elements with interviews from luminaries including Ethio-jazz icon Mulatu Astatke and coffee producer Haile Gebre from Ethiopia’s Mordecofe to create an immersive non-fiction experience. The film, like the country, is vast and textured and full of surprises. Each scene stands on its own, but collectively, the contrasting ideas build a fuller, richer and more honest portrait of Ethiopia.