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Adandé, A[lexandre]:
L’évolution de la musique africaine.
Notes Africaines (Dakar), No. 54, avril 1952: 39-44.

Anonymous:
Who Started the ‘Highlife’?
West African Review (Liverpool), Vol. 29, No. 372, October 1958: 804-807.

Arlt, Veit:
The Union Trade Company and Its Recordings: An Unintentional Documentation of West African Popular Music, 1931-1957.
History in Africa (Cambridge), Vol. 31, 2004: 393-405.

Bender, Wolfgang:
Waka – Sakara – Apala – Fuji.
Islamisch beeinflusste Musik der Yoruba in Nigeria und Benin.
Kommentierte Kataloge zur afrikanischen Musik Nr. 2.
Beyreuth: IWALEWA, Universität Bayreuth, 1983. 22 p.

Bender, Wolfgang:
A Unique Case and Opportunity: In Favor of a Study on the UTC Label.
History in Africa (Cambridge), Vol. 31, 2004: 441-445.

Bilby, Kenneth [M.]:
Africa’s Creole Drum. The Gumbe as Vector and Signifier of Trans-African Creolization.
in: Baron, Robert & Ana C. Cara (eds.):
Creolization as Cultural Creativity.
Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2011: 137-177.

Camara, Ansoumane:
L’image de Kèmè Bouréma dans l’épopée samorienne.
Mande Studies (Bloomington, Ind.), Vol. 3, 2001 : 65-72.

Camara, Seydou; Eric Charry & Jan Jansen:
The Mande Praise Song Kayra (Peace): Mande Global Perspectives.
Metamorphoses (Northampton, Mass.), Vol. 10, Issue 1, Spring 2002: 300-321.

Cannizzo, Jeanne:
Rastamen, Reggae and West African Masquerading.
Paper Presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association,
Los Angeles, California, October 31 – November 3, 1979. (79-26).

Cathcart, Jenny:
The Music of West Africa – A Period of Transition.
in: Hanly, Francis & Tim May (eds.): Rhythms of the World.
London: BBC Books, 1989: 68-77.

Charry, Eric:
The Grand Mande Guitar Tradition of the Western Sahel and Savannah.
The World of Music (Berlin), Vol. 36, No. 2, 1994: 21-61.

Chernoff, John Miller:
Africa Come Back. The Popular Music of West Africa.
in: Haydon, Geoffrey & Dennis Marks (eds.):
Repercussions. A Celebration of African-American Music.
London: Century Publishing, 1985: 152-186.
Deutsche Ausgabe
Highlife. Pop-Musik aus West-Afrika.
in: Haydon, Geoffrey & Dennis Marks (Hrsg.):
Schwarze Rhythmen. Von den Ursprüngen der afro-amerikanischen Musik zur Jazz und Pop.
München: Knaur, 1986: 237-280.

Coester, Markus:
Localising African Popular Music Transnationally:
‘Highlife-Travellers’ in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
Journal of African Cultural Studies (Abingdon), Vol. 20, Issue 2, 2008: 133-144.

Collins, E[dmund] J[ohn]:
Post-War Popular Band Music in West Africa.
African Arts (Los Angeles, Calif.), Vol. 10, No. 3, April 1977: 53-60.
Deutsche Ausgabe
Die populäre Musik in Westafrika nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.
in: Erlmann, Veit (Hrsg.): Populäre Musik in Afrika.
Veröffentlichungen des Museum für Völkerkunde. Neue Folge 53.
Abteilung Musikethnologie VIII. Berlin: Museum für Völkerkunde, 1991: 15-31.

Collins, [Edmund] John:
Sixty Years of West African Popular Music.
West Africa (London), 16th October 1978: 2041-2044.

Collins, [Edmund] John:
Cross Rhythms: Popular Music of West Africa.
Africa Now (London), No. 3, June 1981: 76-77.

Collins, Edmund John:
Jazz Feedback to Africa.
American Music (Champaign, Ill.), Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer 1987: 176-193.

Collins, [Edmund] John:
The Early History of West African Highlife Music.
Popular Music (Cambridge), Volume 8, Issue 3, October 1989: 221-230.

Collins, [Edmund] John:
La musique populaire dans l’Afrique de l’Ouest Anglophone.
Notre Librairie (Paris), n° 141, juillet-septembre 2000: 114-118.

Collins, [Edmund] John:
The Impact of African-American Performance on West Africa from 1800.
Paper presented during the 2004 VAD Conferemce.
Afrika im Kontext. Weltbezüge in Geschichte und gegenwart.
19. Internationale Tagung. Vereinigung von afrikanisten in Deuchland e.v.
02.06.-05.06.2004 Universität Hannover: 1-11.

Collins, [Edmund] John:
‘African Guitarism’. One Houndred Years of West African Highlife.
Legon Journal of the Humanities (Legon), Vol. 17, 2006: 173-196.

Collins, [Edmund] John:
Popular Dance Music and the Media.
in: Njogu, Kimani & John Middleton (eds.):
Media and Identity in Africa.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009: 162-170.
Reprint
Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2010: 162-170.

Collins, [Edmund] John:
Von Seeleuten  und Soldaten.
in: Diederichsen, Detlef & Florian Sievers (Hrsg.):
Pop 16 – 100 Jahre produzierte Musik.
Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2017: 115-126.

Collins, [Edmund] John & Paul Richards:
Popular Music in West Africa – Suggestions for an Interpretative Framework.
in: Horn, David & Philip Tagg (eds.):
Popular Music Perspectives.
Papers from The First International Conference on Popular Music Research, Amsterdam, June 1981.
Göteborg & Exeter: IASPM, 1982: 111-141.
Reprint
in: Frith, Simon (ed.):
World Music, Politics and Social Change.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989: 12-46.

Despres, Altaïr & Marta Amico:
Migrer à contre-courant. L’exemple des résidents culturels européens en Afrique de l’Ouest.
Cahiers d’études africaines (Paris), n° 221-222, 2016: 367-388.

Diawara, Mamadou:
Le griot Mande à l’heure de la globalisation.
Cahiers d’études africaines (Paris),  vol. 36, n° 144, 1996: 591-612.

Diawara, Mamadou:
Mande Oral Popular Culture Revisited by the Electronic media.
in: Barber, Karin (ed.): Readings in African Popular Culture.
London: The International Africa Institute in Association with James Currey, Oxford
and Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind., 1997: 40-48.

Djebbari, Élina:
Guerre froide, jeux politiques et circulations musicales entre Cuba et l’Afrique de l’Ouest.
Las Maravillas de Mali à Cuba et la Orquesta Aragón en Afrique.
Afrique contemporaine (Paris), 2015/2 (n° 254): 21-36.

Dorsch, Hauke:
Westafrikanische Musik: Vom Preisgesang zum Pop.
in: Leggewie, Claus & Erik Meyer (Hrsg.):
Globale Pop. Das Buch zur Weltmusik.
Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler Verlag, 2017: 299-306.

Durán, Lucy:
The Kora – from West Africa to the World Stage.
in: Contadini, Anna (ed.):
Celebrating Art and Music: the SOAS collections.
London: SOAS, University of London, 2017: 12-29.

Ebron, Paulla A.:
Continental Riffs: Praisesingers in Transnational Contexts.
African Identities (Abingdon), Vol. 2, No. 2, 2004: 133-149.

Emielu, A[ustin] ‘M[aro]:
Change and Genre Development in the West African Highlife Music.
Ife Journal of African Literature and the Arts (Isala) (Ile-Ife), Vol. 6, 2011: 93-108.

Eyre, Banning:
In Search of West African Guitar Genius.
Guitar Player (San Bruno, Calif.), Vol. 28, No. 4, 1994: 97-104.

Fosu-Mensah, Kwabena; Lucy Duran & Chis Stapleton:
On Music in Contemporary West Africa.
African Affairs (London), Vol. 86, No. 343, April 1987: 227-240.

Gőogowski, Maciej:
Past and Present of the West African Music.
Africana Bulletin (Warszawa), No. 49, 2001: 171-187.

Hanna, Judith Lynn:
The Highlife: A West African Urban Dance.
in: Rowe, Patricia A.  & Ernestine Stodelle (eds.): Dance Research Monograph 1.
New York, N. Y.: Committee on Research in Dance, 1971: 138-152.
Reprint
in: van Zile, J. (ed.): Dance in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Selected Readings.
New York, N.Y.: MSS Information Corporation, 1976: 164-177.

Harrev, Flemming:
Francophone West Africa and the Jali Experience.
in: Collins, [Edmund] John: West African Pop Roots.
Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1992: 209-243.

Hoffman, Barbara G.
Power, Structure, and Mande Jeliw.
in: Conrad, David C. & Barbara E. Frank (eds.):
Status and Identity in West Africa: Nyamakalaw of Mande.
Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1995: 36-45.

Kane, Djibril:
L’Impact de la Piraterie sur la Production Musicale et sur l’Economie des pays en Voie de Développement.
Document présenté pour ‘l’Atelier de Sensibilisation sur les Droits d’Auteur destine aux Autorités Nationales du Mali, Burkina Faso et du Niger’, sponsorisé par l’UNESCO. Bamako, Mali, 6-7 avril 2005.

Keita, Cheick Mahamadou Chérif:
Jaliya in the Modern World.
in: Conrad, David C. & Barbara E. Frank (eds.):
Status and Identity in West Africa. The Nyamakalaw of Mande.
Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1995: 182-196.

King, Bruce:
Introducing the High-Life.
Jazz Monthly (London), Vol. 12, No. 5, July 1966: 3-8.

Kinney, Esi Sylvia:
Urban West African Music and Dance.
African Urban Notes (East Lansing, Mich.), Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter 1970: 3-10.

Künzler, Daniel:
Rapping against the Lack of Change: Rap Music in Mali and Burkina Faso.
in: Soucier, P[aul] Khalil (ed.):
Native Tongues. An African Hip-Hop Reader.
Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2011: 23-49.

Mbaye, Jenny [F.]:
AURA ou de la production politique de la musique hip hop.
Cahiers de recherche sociologique (Montréal, QC), nᵒ 49, 2010: 147–160.
English edition
Hip-Hop Political Production in West Africa:
AURA and Its Extraordinary Stories of Poto-Poto Children.
in: Soucier, P[aul] Khalil (ed.):
Native Tongues. An African Hip-Hop Reader.
Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2011: 51-68.

Mbaye, Jenny F.:
On the Rogue Practices of West African Musical Entrepreneurs.
in: Pieterse, Edgar & AbdouMaliq Simone (eds.):
Rogue Urbanism: Emergent African Cities.
Cape Town: African Centre for Cities & Jacana Media, 2013: 253–264.

McNee, Lisa:
Back from Babylon: Popular Musical Cultures of the Diaspora, Youth Culture and Identity in Francophone West Africa.
in: Young, Richard (ed.):
Critical Studies Vol. 19: Music, Popular Culture, Identities.
Amsterdam & New York, N.Y.: Editions Rodopi, 2002: 231-248.
Reprint
New York, N.Y.: Brill, 2016: 213-228.

Mensah, Atta [Annan]:
Highlife.
in: Sadie, Stanley (ed.):
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Vol. 8.
London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1980: 550-551.

Moore, Sylvia:
Effects of Mass Media on Traditional Music Cultures in Industrial and Developing Countries.
in: Heartz, Daniel & Bonnie Wade (eds.):
International Musicological Society: Report of the Twelfth Congress, Berkeley 1977.
Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1981: 552-556.

Moore, Sylvia:
Social Identity in Popular Mass Media Music.
in: Horn, David & Philip Tagg (eds.):
Popular Music Perspectives.
Papers from The First International Conference on Popular Music Research, Amsterdam, June 1981.
Göteborg & Exeter: IASPM, 1982: 196-222.

Niang, Abdoulaye:
« Nous le Hip hop, on le tropicalise » : Hip hop, engagement et renouveau panafricaniste.
Communication présentée à la 13ème Assamblée général de CODESRIA, 5-9/12/2011, Rabat, Maroc. 20 p.

Racanelli, David:
Formulaic Variation Procedures in Mande Griot (Jeli) Guitar Playing and Improvisation.
Analytical Approaches To World Music (University of British Columbia), Vol. 2, No.1, 2012: 152-176.

Salm, Steven J.:
Globalization and West African Music.
History Compass (Hoboken, N.J.), Vol. 8, Issue 12, December 2010: 1328-1339.

Saqui, Joan:
Everybody Loves Saturday Night.
West African Review (Liverpool), Vol. 25, No. 319, April 1954: 329 & 331.

Savishinsky, Neil J.:
Rastafari in the Promised Land.
The Spread of a Jamaican Socioreligious Movement among the Youth of West Africa.
African Studies Review (Cambridge), Vol. 37, Issue 3, 1994: 19-50.

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

Schulz, Dorothea E[lisabeth]:
Seductive Secretiveness: Jeliw Creators and Creations of Ethnography.
Mande Studies (Bloomington, Ind.), Vol. 2, 2000: 55-79.

Shipley, Jesse Weaver:
Parody after Identity: Digital Music and the Politics of Uncertainty in West Africa.
American Ethnologist (Arlington, Va.), Vol. 44, Issue 2, May 2017: 249-262.

Smith, Edna M[arilyn]:
Popular Music in West Africa.
African Music (Roodepoort), Vol. 3, No. 1, 1962: 11-17.

Steward, Sue:
The Women who call the Tune.
West Africa (London), 4 June 1984: 1168-1169.

Taylor, Alan R.:
Notes on the West African Record Industry.
Africa Report (Washington, D.C.), Vol. 13, No. 1, January 1968: 2.

Tchebwa, [Antoine] Manda:
La Jeliya ou l’art griotique mandingue.
in: Kadima-Nzuji, Mukala & Alpha Noël Malonga (dir.):
Ininéraires et convergences des musiques traditionelles et modernes d’Afrique.
Paris: L’Harmattan / Brazzaville: FESPAM, 2004: 21-67.

Vernon, Paul:
Savannaphone. Talking Machines Hit West Africa.
Folk Roots (London), No. 122 (Vol. 15, No. 2), August 1993: 21, 23 & 25.

Wittmann, Frank:
The Global-Local Nexus: Popular Music Studies and the Case of Rastafari Culture in West Africa.
Critical Arts (Abingdon), Vol. 25, Issue 2, 2011: 150-174.

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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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  • 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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