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Abdullah, Ibrahim:
Youth Culture and Rebellion:
Understanding Sierra Leone’s Wasted Decade. [Milo]
Critical Arts (Abingdon), Vol. 16, No. 2, 2002: 19-37.

Anonymous:
Variety Time at Freetown Radio.
West African Review (Liverpool), Vol. 18,
No. 243, December 1947: 1444-1445.

Anonymous:
West Africa’s Calypso King. [Ali Ganda].
West African Review (Liverpool), Vol. 27, No. 344, May 1956: 473 -475.

Bender, Wolfgang:
Hidden Treasure. Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service’s
Library of 78 rpm Recordings of African Music.
West Africa (London), 3 November 1986: 2314-2315.

Bender, Wolfgang:
Ebenezer Calender – An Appraisal.
in: Bender, Wolfgang (ed.): Perspectives on African Music.
Bayreuth African Studies Series (Bayreuth), No. 9, 1989: 42-68.

Bender, Wolfgang:
»We are proud to be in the Commonwealth« –
Ali Ganda aus Sierra Leone und der Afro-Calypso.
in: Erlmann, Veit (Hrsg.): Populäre Musik in Afrika.
Veröffentlichungen des Museum für Völkerkunde.
Neue Folge 53. Abteilung Musikethnologie VIII.
Berlin: Museum für Völkerkunde, 1991: 33-58.

Bender, Wolfgang:
Farewell to the Queen – African Music on Shellac Discs.
The Gramophone Library of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service.
in: Schmidhofer, August & Dietrich Schüller (Hrsg.):
For Gerhard Kubik. Festschrift on the Occation of His 60th Birthday.
Wien: Hans Lang, 1994: 219-244.

Bender, Wolfgang:
Ein Klang liegt über der Stadt. Musik im Freetown der achtziger Jahre.
in: Himmelheber, Clara;  Marjorie Jongbloed  & Marcel Odenbach (Hrsg.):
Der Hund ist für die Hyäne eine Kolanuss. Zeitgenössische Kunst und Kultur aus Afrika.
Köln: Oktagon Verlag, 2002: 193-200.

Cannizzo, Jeanne:
Rastamen, Reggae and West African Masquerading.
Paper Presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association,
Los Angeles, California, 31 October – 3 November 1979. 16 p.

Collins, [Edmund] John:
Sierra Leone Music Invades Nigeria.
West Africa (London), 6 July 1981: 1533.

Collins, [Edmund] John:
Chapter 41 Maringa and the Popular Music of Sierra Leone.
Highlife Time. Second revised edition.
Accra: Anamsesem Publications, 1996: 227-232.

Graham, Ronnie:
Chapter 4 Sierra Leone.
Stern’s Guide to Contemporary African Music.
London: Zwan / Off the Record Press, 1988: 105-109.

Graham, Ronnie:
Chapter 4 Sierra Leone.
The World of African Music. Stern’s Guide to Contemporary African Music. Volume 2.
Chicago, Ill.: Pluto Press: 1992: 42-44.

Horton, Christian Dowu:
History of Popular Bands.
Africa Music (London), No. 14, March-April 1983: 12-13.

Horton, Christian Dowu:
Popular Bands of Sierra Leone: 1920 to the Present.
The Black Perspective in Music (Cambria Heights, N.Y.), Vol. 12, No. 2, Fall 1984: 183-192.
Reprint
Africana Research Bulletin (Freetown), Vol. 14, Nos. 1 & 2, March 1985: 32-62.

Johnson, Alex:
Transcription and Translation of Ebenezer Calender’s Repertoire List.
in: Bender, Wolfgang (ed.): Perspectives on African Music.
Bayreuth African Studies Series (Bayreuth), No. 9, 1989: 69-90.

Jones, Eldred:
Freetown – The Contemporary Cultural Scene.
in: Fyfe, Christopher [H.] & Eldred Jones  (eds.): Freetown: A Symposium.
Freetown: Sierra Leone University Press, 1968: 199-211.

Lahai, John Idriss:
The Musicscapes of a Country in Transition:
Cultural Identity, Youth Agency, the Emergent Hip Hop Culture,
and the Quest for Socio-Political Change in Sierra Leone.
in: Clark, Msia Kibona & Mickie Mwanzia Koster (eds.):
Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa.
Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2014: 198-225.

Nuxoll, Cornelia:
“We Listened to it Because of the Message”.
Juvenile RUF Combatants and the Role of Music in the Sierra Leone Civil War.
Music & Politics (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Vol. 9, Issue 1, Winter 2015: 1-25.

Prestholdt, Jeremy:
The Afterlives of 2Pac: Imagery and Alienation in Sierra Leone and Beyond.
Journal of African Cultural Studies (Abingdon), Vol. 21, Issue 2, 2009: 197-218.

Posthumus, Bram, Ed Ashcroft & Richard Trillo:
Sierra Leone. From Palm Wine to Protest.
in: Broughton, Simon; Mark Ellingham & Jon Lusk (eds.):
The Rough Guide to World Music. Volume 1: Africa and the Middle East.
London: The Rough Guides, 2006: 345-350.

Shepler, Susan:
Youth Music and Politics in Post-War Sierra Leone.
The Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge), Vol. 48, Issue 4, December 2010: 627-642.

Stasik, Michael:
Freetown’s Jamaican Reggae:
Further Notes on Audiences in Africa and on the Social Meanings of Music.
in: Omanga, Duncan & Gilbert Ndi Shang (eds.):
The Making of Meaning in Africa: Word, Image and Sound.
Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers No. 10, 3/2013: 7-30.

Stasik, Michael:
Real Love versus Real Life: Youth, Music and Utopia in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Africa. The Journal of the International African Institute (London), Vol. 86, No. 2, 2016: 215-236.

Stasik, Michael:
How to Dance to Beethoven in Freetown:
The Social, Sonic, and Sensory Organisation of Sounds into Music and Noise.
Anthropology Matters (London), Vol. 17, No. 2, 2017: 10-27.

Steward, Gary:
The Pioneering Rogie. [S.E. Rogie]
West Africa (London), No. 3482, 14 May 1984: 1028-1029.

Stewart, Gary:
A Vanishing Breed. [Big Fayia].
West Africa (London), No. 3637, 27 April 1987: 823-825.

Stewart, Gary:
Dr. Olo’s Milo Jazz Band.
West Africa (London), No. 3645, 22 June 1987: 1202-1203.

Stewart, Gary:
Rogie Rallies. [S.E. Rogie]
The Beat (Los Angeles, Calif.), Vol.  7, No. 3, 1988: 47.

Stewart, Gary:
The Silent Sage.
West Africa (London), No. 3770, 20 November 1989: 1926-1927.

Stewart, Gary:
The Music of Sierra Leone, Maringa Roots, Rokoto Shoots.
The Beat (Los Angeles, Calif.), Vol. 12, No. 1, 1993: 45-47.

Stewart, Gary:
The Life and Death of S.E. Rogie.
The Beat (Los Angeles, Calif.), Vol. 13, No. 5, 1994: 32-33.

Ware Hooker, Naomi:
Popular Music in Freetown.
African Urban Notes (East Lansing, Mich.), Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter 1970: 11-18.

Ware, Naomi:
Popular Music and African Identity in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
in: Nettl, Bruno (ed.):
Eight Urban Musical Cultures. Tradition and Change.
Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1978: 296-320.

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  • Mortaigne, Veronique:
    Cesaria Evora. La voix du Cap-Vert.
    Arles: Actes Sud, 1997. 203 p.
    ISBN 2-7427-1152-X 

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    Arles: Actes Sud, 1997. 203 p.
    ISBN 2-7427-1152-X 

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  • Johnson, John William:
    ‘Heelloy’. Modern Poetry and Songs of the Somalis.
    London: HAAN Publishing, 1998. xxiii & 241 p.
    ISBN 978-1-874-20981-2

    CONTENTS

    Foreword to the first edition by B. W. Andrzejewski ix
    Foreword to the 1996 edition by Abdilahi Qarshi xi
    Preface to the first edition xv
    Preface to the 1996 edition xxiii

    1. Introduction
    The social context 1
    The Nature of Traditional Pastoralist Poetry 12
    The Historical Development of Modern Oral Poetry 17

    2. The Family of Miniature Genres
    The Nature of the Family of Miniature Genres 27
    The Poetry of the Miniature Family 32

    3. The emergence of the Belwo
    The Historical Background 49
    The Belwo is Born 53
    The Poetry of the Belwo 59

    4. The Heello: Period One
    The Metamorphosis: Belwo to Heello A 75
    The Modem Poem: Heello A to Heello B 82

    5. The Heello: Period Two
    The Historical Background 95
    The Poetry of the Second Period 103

    6. The Heello: Period Three
    The Historical Background 117
    The Poetry of the Third Period 146

    7. Characteristics of the Heello: All Periods
    Themes Common to All Periods 175
    Structural Characteristics and
    Development Common to All Periods 190
    The Impact of Media on Modern Poetry 208

    8. Conclusion
    The Inheritance of the Heello 215
    Forces Behind the Success and Development of Modern Poetry 216

  • Collins, [Edmund] John:
    Fela. Kalakuta Notes. 2nd edition
    Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2015.  xii & 326 p.
    ISBN 978-0-8195-7539-5 (paper) 978-0-8195-7540-1 (ebook)

    CONTENTS

    Foreword by Banning Eyre ix
    Introduction 1

    Part 1 Early Days
    1 The Birth of Afrobeat 27
    2 Joe Mensah Remembers 41
    3 Fela in Ghana 49
    4 Stan Plange Remembers 29

    Part 2 Confrontation
    5 Kalakuta is Born 67
    6 “JB” Talks about Fela 73
    7 The Kalakuta Republic 81
    8 The Black President 114
    9 Amsterdam and After 125

    Part 3 Retrospect
    10 Mac Tontoh on Fela 139
    11 Frank Talk about Fela 152
    12 Obiba Plays It Again 165
    13 Smart Binete Sorts It Out 174
    14 Anku Checks Out the Beat 178
    15 Nana Danso Orchestrates 183
    16 Some Early Afro-Fusion Pioneers 197
    17 Interview with Fela 204
    18 Afterthoughts and Updates 209
    19. Felabrations at Home and Abroad 238

    Chronology 259
    Notes 269
    Selected Bibliography 281
    Discography 285
    Appendix A: “Shuffering and Shmiling” Score 303
    Index 309

  • Erlmann, Veit (ed.):
    Populäre Musik in Afrika.
    Veröffentlichungen des Museum für Völkerkunde.
    Neue Folge 53. Abteilung Musikethnologie VIII.
    Berlin: Museum für Völkerkunde, 1991. 312 pp. & 2 CDs.
    ISBN 3-88609-213-5

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  • Sweeney, Philip:
    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. 262 p.
    Section Africa 1-81
    ISBN 0-86369-378-4

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    AFRICA

    The North and West
    Introduction: Peter Gabriel 1
    Libya 3
    Tunisia 5
    Algeria 6
    Morocco 13
    Mauritania 16
    Senegal 17
    Mali 20
    Guinea 26
    Guinea-Bissau 29
    Cape Verde 29
    Sierra Leone 31
    Côte d’Ivoire 32
    Ghana 34
    Togo and Benin 36
    Nigeria 37

    Central Africa, The South and East
    Introduction: Manu Dibango 42
    Cameroon 44
    Zaire 49
    Congo 56
    Gabon 56
    Angola 57
    Zambia 58
    Mozambique 59
    Zimbabwe 60
    South Africa 65
    Madagascar 70
    Mauritius and Reunion 71
    Tanzania and Zanzibar 72
    Kenya 74
    Uganda 76
    Burundi 76
    Ethiopia 77
    Sudan 79

  • Lee, Hélène:
    Rockers d’Afrique. Stars et légendes du rock mandinque.
    Paris: Albin Michel, 1988. 223 pp.
    ISBN 2-226-03 139-1 

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