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Ademuleya, Babasehinde Augustine & Michael Olusegun Fajuyigbe:
Pan-Africanism and the Black Festivals of Arts and Culture:
Today’s Realities and Expectations.
Journal of Humanities and Social Science IOSR-JHSS (Ghaziabad, UP),
Vol. 20, Issue 3, Ver. 1, 2015: 22-28.

Akombo, David O.:
Deconstructing African Poverty against the Backdrop of a Rich Musical Heritage: A Paradox.
in: Falola, Toyin & Jamaine Abidogun (eds.)
Education, Creativity, and Economic Empowerment in Africa.
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013: 221-231.

Akpabot, Samuel Ekpe:
Music in Urban African Revolution.
Paper Presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, October 31 – November 3, 1979. 18 p.

Allen, Lara:
Music and Politics in Africa.
Social Dynamics (Cape Town), Vol. 30, Issue 2, 2004: 1-19.

Aranzadi, Isabela de:
Musical Objects and Identities in Transit within Groups in
Equatorial Guinea: Musical Connections with Sierra Leone
and Cuba following the Abolition of Slavery.
in: Boampong, Joanna (ed.):
In and Out of Africa: Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American Connections.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012: 190-215.

Aranzadi, Isabela de:
El legado cultural de Sierra Leona en Bioko.
Comparativa de dos espacios de criolización africana.
Éndoxa (Madrid), Series Filosóficas, n.ᵒ 37, 2016: 237-278.

Argyle, John:
Kalela, Beni, Asafo, Ingoma and the Rural‐Urban Dichotomy.
African Studies (Johannesburg), Vol. 50, 1991: 65-86.

Arlt, Veit & Ernst Lichtenhahn:
Recordings of African Popular Music:
A Valuable Source for Historians of Africa.
History in Africa (Cambridge), Vol. 31, 2004: 389-391.

Arnaud, Gérald:
Pour une exception musicale africaine.
Africultures (Paris), 2003/1 (n° 54): 79-92.

Arnaud, Gérald:
L’économie des musiques africaines : un terrible paradoxe.
Africultures (Paris), 2006/4 (n° 69): 57-71.

Aterianus-Owanga, Alice & Sophie Moulard:
Cherchez le politique… Polyphonies, agencéité et stratégies du rap en Afrique.
Politique africaine (Paris), 2016/1 (n° 141): 5-25.

Aterianus-Owanga, Alice:
‪Rap Studies in Africa.
Revue analytique de la littérature sur le rap en Afrique depuis les années 2000‪.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
Volume ! (Paris), 2017/2 (n° 14:1): 7-22.

Baines, Gary:
Popular Music of Sub-Saharan Africa.
in: Hickey, Dennis V. (ed.):
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture: Volume 5: Sub-Saharan Africa.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007: 203-229.

Barrett, Lindsay:
Roots Music (Part 1). The Rhythm and Colour of African Traditions in Modern Music.
Africa Music (London), No. 1, Janauary-February 1981: 9-11 & 18.
Roots Music (Part 2). The Funky End of Roots Music.
Africa Music (London), No. 2, March-April 1981: 9-11.

Bender, Wolfgang:
Hunderte von Völkern, Hunderte von Kulturen.
Materialien zur populären Musik Schwarzafrikas.
in: Frederking, Klaus & Klaus Humann (Hrsg.):
Rock Session 7. Das Magazin der populären Musik.
Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 1983: 112-134.

Bender, Wolfgang:
Indépendence ChaCha. Independence Songs in Africa during the ‘60s.
in: Hennion, Antoine (dir.):
1789-1989. Musique, histoire, démocratie/Music, History, Democracy.
Colloque international organisé par “Vibrations” et IASPM (International Association for the Studies of Popular Music), Paris, 17-20 juilliet 1989. Recherche Musique et Danse, nᵒ 6.
Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 1992: 167-180.

Bender, Wolfgang:
African Music Airwaves – From Colonial to Neocolonial Shores: Radio and Music in Africa.
in: Collier, Gordon & Frank Schulze-Engler (eds.):
Cross / Cultures, Vol. 59. Crabtracks. Progress and Process in Teaching the New Literatures in English: Essays in Honour of Dieter Riemenschneider.
Amsterdam & New York, N.Y.: Rodopi B.V. Editions, 2002: 181-198.

Bender, Wolfgang:
Modern African Music – An Autonomous Music.
in: Thorsén, Stig-Magnus (ed.):
Sound of Change. Social and Political Features of Music in Africa.
Stockholm: SIDA Studies No. 12, 2004: 87-106.

Bensignor, François:
Afrique contemporaine. La création musicale au miroir de l’histoire.
Hommes et Migrations (Paris), n° 1257, 2005: 125-133.

Bilby, Kenneth:
The Transatlantic “Return” of Afro-American Musics to Africa.
in: Aharonián, Coriún (ed.):
La música entre África y América.
Montevideo: Centro de Documentación Musical Lauro Ayestarán,
Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, 2013: 311-355.

Brusila, Johannes:
Jungle Drums Striking the World Beat: Africa as an Image Factor in World Beat.
in: Palmberg Mai (ed.):
Encountering Images in the Meetings between Africa and Europe.
Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute, 2001: 146-161.

Charry, Eric:
Music and Postcolonial Africa.
in: Shanguhyia, Martin S.  & Toyin Falola (eds.):
The Palgrave Handbook of Colonial and Postcolonial History.
New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018: 1231-1261.

Chernoff, John Miller:
Foreword.
in: Bender, Wolfgang:
Sweet Mother. Modern African Music.
Chicago, Ill.: Chicaco University Press, 1991: ix-xvii.

Clerfeuille, Sylvie:
Musique : l’Afrique lusophone bercée par la saudade.
Notre Librairie (Paris), nᵒ 154, avril-juin 2004: 102-106.

Cloonan, Martin:
Popular Music Censorship in Africa: An Overview.
in: Drewett, Michael & Martin Cloonan (eds.):
Popular Music Censorship in Africa.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006: 3-21.

Collins, [Edmund] John:
African Music Strengthens Cultural Autonomy. 
Group Media Journal (München), Vol. 8, No. 4, 1989: 17-21.

Collins, [Edmund] John:
A Historical Review of Popular Entertainment in Sub-Saharan Africa.
in: Manuh, Takyiwaa & Esi Sutherland-Addy (eds.):
Africa in Contemporary Perspective: A Textbook for Undergraduate Students.
Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2013: 445-466.

Coplan, David B[ellin]:
Popular Music.
in: Oliver, Roland & Michael Crowder (eds.):
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Africa.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981: 446-450.

Cowley, John H.:
uBungca (Oxford Bags).
Recordings in London of African and West Indian Music in the 1920s and 1930s.
Musical Traditions (Rochford, Essex), No. 12, Summer 1994: 13-26.

Dagri, Paul:
Musiques traditionnelles et modernes : des concepts et de la problématique du développement des musiques africaines à l’ère de la globalisation.
in: Kadima-Nzuji, Mukala & Alpha Noël Malonga (dir.):
Ininéraires et convergences des musiques traditionelles et modernes d’Afrique.
Paris: L’Harmattan / Brazzaville: FESPAM, 2004: 375-386.

Dauer, A[lfons] M.:
Neue Musik in Afrika. 1. & 2. Teil.
Afrika Heute (Bonn), Nr. 14/15, 1. August 1965: 196-200
& Nr. 16, 1. September 1965: 220-223.

Dorsch, Hauke:
“Indépendance Cha Cha”: African Pop Music since the Independence Era.
Africa Spectrum (Hamburg), Vol. 45, Issue 3, 2010: 131-146.

Dorsch, Hauke:
Vom „Independance Cha Cha” zu „Quitte Le Pouvoir”.
Afrikanische Popmusik seit der Unabhängigkeitsära.
in: Bierschenk, Thomas & Eva Spies (Hrsg.):
50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit in Afrika – Kontinuitäten, Brüche, Perspektiven.
Köln: Köppe, 2012: 501-523.

Dorsch, Hauke:
Rumberos and Guerrilleros: Angélique Kidjo, Freddy Ilanga and African-Cuban Relations.
in: Röschenthaler, Ute & Alessandroo Jedlowski (eds.):
Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America.
London: Zed Books, 2017: 277-297.

Durán, Lucy, Janet Topp Fargion & Marion Wallace:
Crossings: Word and Music across the Atlantic.
in: Casely-Hayford, Gus; Janet Topp Fargion & Marion Wallace (eds.):
West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song.
London: British Library, 2015: 72-99.

Emielu, Austin ‘Maro:
Towards a Global 21st Century African Popular Music: ASSATA Band as a Case Study.
Legon Journal of the Humanities (Legon), Vol. 19, 2008: 135-149.

Emielu, A[ustin ‘Maro]:
I am a Music Minister, not a Musician: Social Identity in Contemporary African Music.
Nigerian Music Review (Ile-Ife), No. 1, 2014: 110-126.

Englert, Birgit:
Popular Music and Politics in Africa – Some Introductory Reflections.
Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien (Wien), Nr. 14, 8. Jahrgang, 2008: 1-15.

Eriksson, Bengt:
Afrikansk safari 1968-1982.
Schlager (Stockholm), nr. 57/58, december 1982: 33-37.

Everett, Richard:
’Operation Africa’. Report from Abidjan on the Partial Success of an
African Fund-Raising Pop Concert for Famine Relief.
West Africa (London), 9 September 1985: 1861-1862.

Fosu-Mensah, Kwabena:
Unanswered Questions.
African Music‘s Acceptance in the West is not Coming Smoothly.
West Africa (London), 4 April 1988: 599.

Eyre, Banning:
New Sounds from Africa: Soukous, Chimurenga, Mbanqanga and more.
Guitar Player (San Jose, Calif.), Vol. 22, No. 10, Issue 226, October 1988: 80-88.

Eyre, Banning:
African Reinventions of the Guitar.
in: Coelho, Victor Anand (ed.):
The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003: 44-64.

Fargion, Janet Topp:
African Music in the World and Traditional Music Section at the British Library Sound Archive.
History in Africa (Cambridge), Vol. 31, 2004: 447-454.

Forman, Murray:
Keeping it Real? African Youth Identities and Hip Hop.
in: Young, Richard (ed.):
Critical Studies Vol. 19: Music, Popular Culture, Identities.
Amsterdam & New York, N.Y.: Editions Rodopi, 2002: 101-132.
Reprint
New York, N.Y.: Brill, 2016: 89-118.

Freedman, Jeffrey & Robert Saucier:
Le son d’amplicateurs lointains: une revue de la littérature sur la pop africaine.
Communication-Information (Québec, QB), vol. 8, nᵒ 2, août-septembre 1986: 23-49.

Gaulier, Armelle & Daouda Gary-Tounkara :
Musique et pouvoir, pouvoirs des musiques dans les Afriques. Introduction thématique.
Afrique contemporaine (Paris), 2015/2 (n° 254):  13-20.

Günter, Robert:
Gedanken zur Neuzeit in der Afrikanischen Musik.
in: Musicae Scientae Collectanea [Fellerer Festschrift].
Karl Gustav Fellerer zum 70. Geburtstag am 7. Juli 1972.
Köln: Arno Volk Verlag, 1973: 187-198.

Hall, Perry A.:
Soul to Soul: Hip Hop, Globalization, and Africa.
in: Sahle, Eunice N. (ed.):
Globalization and Socio-Cultural Processes in Contemporary Africa.
Basingstoke: Palmgrave Macmillan, 2015: 229-274.

Hendler, Maximilian:
Drei afrikanische Städte: Bamako – Kinshasa – Zanzibar.
in: Helms, Dietrich & Thomas Phelps (Hrsg.):
Sound and the City. Populäre Musik im urbanen Kontext.
Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2007: 87-96.

Impey, Angela:
Popular Music in Africa.
in: Stone, Ruth M. (ed.):
Africa. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 1.
New York, N.Y. & London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1998: 415-437.

Jackson, Rachel:
The Trans-Atlantic Journey of Gumbé: Where and why has It Survived?
Africa Music (Grahamstown), Vol. 9, No. 2, 2012: 128-153.

Jones, A[rthur] M[orris]:
Vol. 1 Chapter 11 The Neo-Folk Music.
Studies in African Music. 2 vols.
London: Oxford University Press, 1959: 252-257.

Kaemmer, John E.:
Changing Music in Contemporary Africa.
in: Martin, Phillis M. & Patrick O’Meara (eds.): Africa.
Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1977: 367-377 & 453-455.

Kaye, Andrew L.:
The Guitar in Africa.
in: Stone, Ruth M. (ed.):
Africa. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 1.
New York, N.Y. & London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1998: 350-369.

Kierman, Sean:
Audiometric Characteristics of the Ethnic Ear.
in: Tracey, Andrew (ed.):
Papers Presented at the Second Symposium on Ethnomusicology.
Music Department, Rhodes University, 24th to 26th September 1981.
Grahamstown: International Library of African Music, 1982: 53-60.

Kirkegaard, Annemette:
Hvad er baggrunden for reggaens enorme popularitet i Afrika?
[What is the Background for Reggae’s Enormous Popularity in Africa?]
Musik og Forskning (København), 1998-1999: 79-114.

Kohlhagen, Dominik:
Frime, escroquerie et cosmopolitisme.
Le succès du « coupé-décalé » en Afrique et ailleurs.
Politique africaine (Paris), 2005/4 (n° 100): 92-105.

Kubik, Gerhard:
Die Situation der Musik Afrikas.
Neues Afrika (Berlin), 4. Jahrgang, Heft 9, September 1962: 351-352.

Kubik, Gerhard:
Neue Musikformen in Schwarzafrika.
Psychologische und musik-ethnologische Grundlagen.
Afrika Heute (Bonn), Sonderbeilage. 1. Märtz 1965. 16 p.

Kubik, Gerhard:
Die Situation der Musik und darstellenden Kunst in Afrika.
Afrika Heute (Bonn), Nr. 13, 15. Juli 1965: 174-175.

Kubik, Gerhard:
Die Popularität von Musikarten im Afrika südlich der Sahara.
Afrika Heute (Bonn), Nr. 24, 15. Dezember 1966: 370-375.

Kubik, Gerhard:
Afrikanische Elemente im Jazz – Jazzelemente in der populären Musik Afrikas.
Jazzforschung / Jazz Research (Graz), Nr. 1, 1969: 84-98.
Nachgedruckt
Kapitel Afrikanische Elemente im Jazz – Jazzelemente in der populären Musik Afrikas.
Zum Verstehen afrikanischer Musik. Aufsätze.
Leipzig: Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., 1988: 300-321.

Kubik, Gerhard:
Part II Return to Africa.
Africa and the Blues.
Jackson, Miss., University Press of Mississippi, 1999: 153-196.

Künzler, Daniel:
The ‘Lost Generation’: African Hip Hop Movements and the Protest of the Young (Male) Urban.
in: Herkenrath, Mark (ed.):
Civil Society: local and Regional Responses to Global Challenges.
Zürich & Münster: LIT Verlag, 2006: 89-127.

Laade, Wolfgang:
Abschnitt Bemerkungen… Afrika.
Neue Musik in Afrika, Asien und Oceanien.
Diskographie und historisch-stilistischer Überblick.
Heidelberg: Wolfgang Laade, 1971: 57-102.

Malm, Krister:
Intellectual Property Rights and Unfair Exploitation of
Traditional Music and Other Traditional Knowledge in Africa.
in: Thorsén, Stig-Magnus (ed.):
Sound of Change. Social and Political Features of Music in Africa.
Stockholm: SIDA Studies No. 12, 2004: 120-134.

Mano, Winston:
Popular Music as Journalism in Africa: Issues and Contexts.
in: Wasserman, Herman (ed.):
Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa.
Abingdon: Routledge, 2011: 91-104.

Manuel, Peter:
Chapter 3 Africa.
Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey.
New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1988: 84-114  & 251-254.

Martin, Denis-Constant:
Les musiques face au pouvoir.
Géopolitique africaine / African Geopolitics (Paris), n° 13, 2004: 117-132.

Mbaye, Jenny F.:
Hip Hop Politics: Recognising a Southern Complexity.
in: Parnell, Susan & Sophie Oldfield (eds.):
The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South.
London: Routledge, 2014: 396-412.

Mbaye, Jenny F.:
Musical Borderlands: A Cultural Perspective of Regional Integration in Africa.
City, Culture and Society (Amsterdam), Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2015: 19-26.

Mensah, Atta Annan:
Music South of the Sahara.
in: May, Elizabeth (ed.):
Music of Many Cultures: An Introduction.
Berkley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1980: 172-194.

Miller, Terry E. & Andrew Shahriari:
Chapter 10 Sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana, Zimbabwe, Senegal, The Republic of South Africa.
World Music. A Global Journey. Concise edition.
New York, N.Y. & London: Routledge, 2015: 206-233.
2nd edition
New York, N.Y. & London: Routledge, 2019: 205-232.

Monroe, Arthur:
Festac 77. The Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, Lagos, Nigeria.
The Black Scholar (Abingdon), Vol. 9, No. 1, 1977: 34-37.

Montes-Pizarro, Errol L.:
El bolero en África: Un diálogo musical alrededor del Atlántico Negro.
in: Tejeda, Darío & Rafael E. Yunén (eds):
El bolero en la cultura caribeña y su proyección universal:
Memorias del III Congreso Internacional Música, Identidad y Cultura en el Caribe,
Instituto de Estudios Caribeños y Centro León, Santiago de los Caballeros, República Dominicana, 2010: 483-495.

Montes-Pizarro, Errol L.:
Infuencias del son y de la salsa en el Congo y en Senegal.
in: Tejeda, Darío & Rafael E. Yunén (eds.):
El son y la salsa en la identidad del Caribe:
Memorias del II Congreso Internacional Música, Identidad y Cultura en el Caribe,
Instituto de Estudios Caribeños y Centro León, Santiago de los Caballeros, República Dominicana, 2008: 269-280.

Moulard, Sophie:
Quand « se représenter » veut dire exister ; du concert party au rap,
quarante ans de pratiques performatives en Afrique subsaharienne.
in: Coulon, Virginia & Xavier Garnier (dir.):
Les littératures africaines : textes et terrains / Textwork and Fieldwork. Hommage à Alain Ricard.
Paris, Karthala, 2011.

Murphy, David:
Where Does World Music Come From? Globalization, Afropop and the Question of Cultural Identity.
in: Biddle, Ian & Vanessa Knights (eds.):
Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location: Between the Global and the Local.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007 / Reprint New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2016: 39-61.

Ndaywell è Nzim:
Les grand journées africaines de Lagos. [FESTAC 77]
Zaïre-Afrique (Kinshasa),  n° 115, mai 1977: 303-312.

Ndjehoya, Blaise:
Les diseurs de vérité : textes militants et pédagogiques.
Notre Librairie (Paris), n° 154, avril-juin 2004: 27-33.

Nketia, J[oseph] H[ansson] Kwabena:
Traditional and Contemporary Idioms of African Music.
Journal of the International Folk Music Council (Cambridge), No. 16, 1964: 34-37.

Ntarangwi, Mwenda:
African Hip Hop and Politics of Change in an Era of Rapid Globalization.
History Compass (Hoboken, N.J.), Vol. 8, No. 12, 2010: 1316–1327.

Obatala, J. K.:
US ‘Soul’ Music in Africa.
The African Communist (London), No. 41, Second Quarter 1970: 80-89.
Reprint
Soul Music in Africa. Has Papa Got a Brand New Bag?
The Black Scholar (Sausalito, Calif.), Vol. 2, No. 6, February 1971: 8-12.

Okochi, Reginald:
Disco Bonanza in Africa.
Africa Music (London), No. 9, May-June 1982: 16-18.

Okwong, Eteyen:
Why African Musicians Suffer From Good Packaging.
Africa Music (London), No. 18, November-December 1983: 12-13.

Omibiyi[-Obidike], Mosunmola [Ayinke]:
Interaction between African and Afro-American Music.
Actes du 42e Congrès international des américanistes:
Congrès du centenaire: Paris, 2-9 septembre 1976: 597-604.

Onwuegbuna, Ikenna Emmanuel:
African Popular Music and Politics of Presentation.
Journal of the Association of Nigerian Musicologists (Ile-Ife), Vol. 7, 2013: 176-181.

Onyumbe, Tshonga:
La Musique africaine moderne ou l’école incontrôlée de l’oralité.
Cahiers de pédagogie africaine (Bordeaux), n° 1, 1978: 50-59.

Racanelli, David:
Revisiting the Katanga Guitar Style(s) and Some Other Early African Guitar Idioms.
Black Music Research Journal (Chicago, Ill.), Vol. 36, No. 1, 2016: 31-57.

Raibaud, Yves:
Musique noire : la musique des Afriques dans le monde. Géographie des musiques noires.
Géographie et Cultures (Paris), n° 76, 2011: 3-12.

Reitov, Ole & Marie Korpe:
“NOT TO BE BROADCASTED”.
in: Thorsén, Stig-Magnus (ed.):
Sound of Change. Social and Political Features of Music in Africa.
Stockholm: SIDA Studies No. 12, 2004: 70-86.

Reuster‐Jahn, Uta & Daniel Künzler:
“Mr. President”: Musical Open Letters as Political Commentary in Africa.
Africa Today (Bloomington, Ind.), Vol. 59, No. 1, 2012: 89-113.

Rhodes, Willard:
Music as an Agent of Political Expression.
African Studies Bulletin (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 5, No. 2, May 1962: 14-22.
Reprint
in: Butcher, Vada R. (ed.): Centre of Ethnic Music. Annual Report 1970-71.
School of Music. Howard University, Washington, D.C.: 37-40.

Ricard, Alain:
Le “taarab est comme le concert party…” – Reflexions comparatives.
in: Englert, Birgit (ed.): Popular Music and Politics in Africa.
Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien (Wien), Nr. 14, 8. Jahrgang, 2008: 123-136.

Roberts, John Storm:
Chapter 9 The Modern Urban Popular Styles.
Black Music of Two Worlds.
New York, N.Y.: Praeger Publishers, 1972: 239-260.
1st reprint
New York, N.Y.: W. Morrow, 1974. 282 p. ISBN 978-06880-5278-2
2nd reprint
Brooklyn, N.Y.:  Original Music, 1982. ISBN 978-09614-4580-5
Second revised edition
New York, N.Y.: Schirmer Books, 1998. 368 p. ISBN 978-00286-4929-0

Roberts, John Storm:
Africa. The Guitar’s Role.
Guitar Player (San Jose, Calif.), Vol. 9, No. 11, November 1975: 22-23 & 57.

Roberts, John Storm:
Introducing African Pop.
Africa Report (Washington, D.C.), January-February 1975: 42-45.

Saucier, P[aul] Khalil:
Introduction Hip-Hop Culture in Red, Black and Green.
Native Tongues. An African Hip-Hop Reader.
Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2011: xiii-xxiii.

Schmidt, Cynthia:
The Guitar in Africa: Issues and Research.
The World of Music (Berlin), Vol. 36, No.2, 1994: 3-20.

Schmidt, Cynthia:
Kru Mariners and Migrants of the West African Coast.
in: Stone, Ruth M. (ed.): Africa. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 1.
New York, N.Y. & London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1998: 370-382.
Reprint
New York, N.Y. & London: Routledge, 2013: 370-382.

Simon, Artur:
Afrikanische und indonesische Musik zwischen Tradition und Pop.
in: Rösing, Helmut (Hrsg.):
Zur Tradition, Rezeption und Produktion von populärer Musik.
Hamburg: ASPM, 1987: 5-14.

Simon, Artur:
Traditionelle Wurzeln und moderne Entwicklungen in populärer Musik Afrikas.
in: Rösing, Helmut (Hrsg.):
Aspekte zur Geschichte populärer Musik.
Baden-Baden: ASPM, 1992: 31-41.

Sweeney, Philip:
Section Africa.
Directory of World Music. A Guide to Performers and their Music.
With Contributions from Peter Gabriel, Andy Kershaw, Giberto Gil [&] Manu Dibango.
London: Virgin Books, 1991: 1-81.

Turino, Thomas:
The Music of Sub-Saharan Africa.
in: Nettl, Bruno;‎ Timothy Rommen;‎ Charles Capwell;‎  Isabel K. F. Wong;‎
Thomas Turino;‎ Philip V. Bohlman & ‎Byron Dueck (eds.):
Excursions in World Music. 6th Edition.
Abingdon & New York, N.Y.: Routledge, [1992] 2011: 196-237.

Vernon, Paul:
The World at 80 rpm.
Paul Vernon looks at the Early Days of World Music Recordings.
Folk Roots (London), No. 119, May 1993: 25.

Waters, Alan:
Reggae music in Africa.
Passages: A Chronicle of the African Humanities (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Issue 8, 1994: 3 & 6-7.

White, Bob W.:
Réflexions sur un hymne continental. La musique africaine dans le monde.
Cahiers d’études africaines (Paris), n° 168, 2002:  633-644.

Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe:
Dancing to the Beat of the Diaspora: Musical Exchanges between Africa and its Diasporas.
African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (Abingdon), Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2010: 211-236.