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Volume 4 is a collection of scholarly essays, some in narrative style, that discusses specific musical arts topics, in the disciplinary fields of African philosophy, African musical ats theory, indigenous concept of drama, contemporary musical arts education including dance education, science and technology, and music and health.

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Onyeji is an internationally recognized composer, educator and scholar from Nigeria who specializes in Research-Composition, a compositional approach that applies ethnomusicological procedures in the composition of modern African art music that is a logical continuum of African traditional music.

Website / Online platform · Nigeria

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This chapter focuses on assessment in cross-cultural music education, based on cross-cultural understanding and dialogue, and aims to accommodate diverse forms of thinking. It introduces the measurability of African musical arts and develops a generic evaluation system based on recontextualized authenticity, implementable outside its culture of origin.

Book chapter · Pan-African

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The book presents selected papers from the First International Symposium on Ethnomusicology in Uganda, held at Makerere University in Kampala from 23-25 November 2009.

Book · Uganda

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John Chitambo worked and lived in the Seychelles for four years. This book documents the history and state of music education in Seychelles: how music is taught in schools and how music teachers are trained in the country; from the colonial French and British to today. The book discusses Sega and Moutia music genres and dances, as well as perceptions of music education in Seychelles.

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Fadlu-Deen commemorates the well-renowned musicians of Sierra Leone: Pino, Dr Oloh’s Milo Jazz Band, Rogie, Calender. Her meticulously researched and elegantly written book covers all the bands from1960’s to the 1990’s.

Book · Sierra Leone

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The book gives a short history of the development of music education in Kenya and is useful for music educators, students, researchers, teachers, musicians.

Book · Kenya

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Musical Sense and Musical Meaning is an exposition of the indigenous philosophy, theory and societal meaning of the African musical arts system using the Igbo conceptual paradigm. It is co-authored by five articulate Igbo 'mother' musicians.

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South Africa is an intimate and incisive portrait of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape of South Africa. Drawing on her own on background as well as her research period during which she became a band member, Bruinders documents this centuries-old expressive practice through music by way of a social history of the coloured communities. She traces its development through colonialism and apartheid and into the era of democracy.

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How does a peoples’ music reflect their history, their occupations, cultural beliefs and values? These are the core questions that this book addresses in relation to the Aawambo people of Namibia. Recommended for all those interested in culture, anthropology, the arts, and Namibian studies.

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This series of ideas enable readers to experience and appreciate different musics; thus to broaden the basis of music education.

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Digital downloads of audio files and pronunciation of songs from Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania

Audio recording · Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania

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"Musical Futures Online: Music education resources designed for the classroom, including playalongs and learning tools created to support teaching from ages 6 to 16 (Key Stage 2 - 4) Winners of: Music and Drama Education Awards Outstanding Music EducationResource of 2022 Teach Primary: Remote Learning 2022 Teach Secondary - Curriculum Impact 2022". Explore a wide collection of resources to help deliver music in the classroom. All resources are included COMPLETELY FREE as part of the relevant Musical Futures training event.

Website / Online platform · Primary school, Secondary school

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PianoBoost is an innovative app that uses colour, positive reinforcement, real-time feedback and game technology to create an engaging app for piano students. It does not replace the piano, but has instant note recognition to indicate correct notes.

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The Talking Drum - a network for promoting Intercultural Education through Music (NETIEM) and focuses on African musical arts. Professor Elizabeth Oehrle, from the School of Music, University of KwaZulu-Natal, is the Editor of The Talking Drum.

Newsletter

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Trinity College provides teaching materials and resources for individual and group music lessons. It is an examination board. Paid for.

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Volume 5 is on modern African classical drumming as an instrument of specialization for contemporary concert performances. It contains repertory for solo drumming, drum and voice/saxophone/trumpet duos, and intercultural drum ensemble works.

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These 3 volumes are performance repertoire grounded in indigenous African musical arts knowledge systems for local and global educational, research and concert engagements.Volumes 1 to 3 are designed as a graduated series for musical arts education at the tertiary level under the module topics: musical structure and form; factors of music appreciation; music instruments; music and society; research; music theatre; and performance.

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African Composers Edition is a South-African based company that publishes and promotes sheet music by composers from Africa in conjunction with copyright holders. ACE’s mission is to give African composers a digital platform and render their music accessible worldwide. They have published choral works by Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa, Michael Mosoeu Moerane & Surendran Reddy. Free resources and teaching material available.

Website / Online platform · South Africa

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Opportunities to learn and appreciate drumming is limited in contemporary contexts. The International Centre for African Music and Dance at the University of Ghana aim at making African drum music accessible to a wider public in the form of musical scores, audio and video recordings. The three titles in the series cover different types of drum; and each gives information on performance practice and instruments, the full score of the work, vertical alignment and bibliography.

Score / Sheet music · Ghana

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Opportunities to learn and appreciate drumming is limited in contemporary contexts. The International Centre for African Music and Dance at the University of Ghana aim at making African drum music accessible to a wider public in the form of musical scores, audio and video recordings. The three titles in the series cover different types of drum; and each gives information on performance practice and instruments, the full score of the work, vertical alignment and bibliography.

Score / Sheet music · Ghana

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Opportunities to learn and appreciate drumming is limited in contemporary contexts. The International Centre for African Music and Dance at the University of Ghana aim at making African drum music accessible to a wider public in the form of musical scores, audio and video recordings. The three titles in the series cover different types of drum; and each gives information on performance practice and instruments, the full score of the work, vertical alignment and bibliography.

Score / Sheet music · Ghana

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This songbook for children brings together East African songs from vast and diverse folk heritages. It includes children's play, dance and story songs, and some patriotic and party songs, from the ethnic or language groups of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, as well as some songs from related ethnic groups in regions of Burundi, the DRC, Malawi and Rwanda.

Score / Sheet music · Uganda

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This lively collection includes 19 game songs, story songs, and richly textured multipart songs from the vocal traditions of the Akan people of Ghana and the Shona of Zimbabwe. This book-audio set is authentic arrangements in unison, 2, 3, and 4 parts, many with percussion 19 Full-size, reproducible musical transcriptions. In-depth cultural context, performance suggestions and game directions; historical and geographical information.

Score / Sheet music · Ghana, Zimbabwe

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Afribary is an African academic database, owned and operated by Afribary Ltd. You can access thesis, dissertations, papers, reports, articles/essays, texts and study materials to help your academic work. Users can find, share, and publish ebooks, academic research papers, project topics, essays, papers, theses, and other study and teaching materials. 

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African Books Collective (ABC) is an African-owned mission-based distribution outlet for books published independently in Africa. The publishers from across the continent who are part of the collective have over its 30 year history contributed some 3000 titles, which continue to be available in print. Over 2000 of these are available digitally on this platform and new titles will be added regularly.

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AJOL, the indexing platform of quality African-published scholarly journals, is a Non-Profit Organisation that (since 1998) works to increase global & continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research. Researchers and policy-makers need access to contextually-relevant quality research publications from Africa in order to develop solutions to address the continent’s challenges in health, education, climate change & under-development.

Database / Digital archive

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Online database covering 3,100+ institutions in 223 countries.

Database / Digital archive

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Coverage of the Togolese music and media landscape.

Other · Togo

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Article on artistic training in Chad.

Other · Chad

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RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) is committed to documenting, safeguarding, and preserving the world’s knowledge about all musical traditions, and to making this knowledge accessible to research and performance communities worldwide via digital collections and advanced tools. RILM’s collections aim to include the music scholarship of all countries, in all languages, and across all disciplinary and cultural boundaries, thereby fostering research in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences

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Sabinet African Archives is a growing online consolidated index of thousands of African archives as well as special collections consisting of manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, articles, and more, to researchers with an interest in Africa. myDiscover users can access the index for free.

Database / Digital archive

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Theses and dissertations held at the OpenUCT website.

Database / Digital archive · South Africa

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ResearchSpace is the institutional repository of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, developed to increase the visibility, availability and impact of its research output. It was also created to disseminate and manage digital materials created by researchers of the institution.

Database / Digital archive · South Africa

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Institutional repository for theses and dissertations.

Database / Digital archive · South Africa

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Electronic theses and dissertations held at the UFS-UV.

Database / Digital archive · South Africa

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Wits Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD).

Database / Digital archive · South Africa

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SASMT, PASMAE and ISME built an alliance. This is a report about the outcomes.

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Reports from PASMAE conferences.

Website / Online platform

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The PASMAE and ISME conferences are a good source of information, networking and sharing. Conference proceedings can be found in the conference archives.

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Non-profit connecting choirs and individuals across 50+ countries.

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Annual music celebration on June 21, originated by French Minister Jack Lang.

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Social media presence for the Handevat Music Project.

Website / Online platform · South Africa

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Promotes innovation, African history understanding, and confidence.

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UNESCO partner NGO promoting arts education globally.

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Interdisciplinary institute at University of Cape Town's Humanities Faculty.

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Scholarly organization focused on studying and preserving traditional music globally.

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World's leading membership-based professional organisation promoting the value of music.

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The ISME advocacy Facebook group, open to everyone who wants to share advocacy ideas and materials.

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London College of Music Examinations (LCME) is a university-owned, inclusive board for performance exams. Established in 1887, we offer globally recognised qualifications and awards in music, drama, communications, and creative media.

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Music festival celebrated in 120 countries across 700 cities.

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International organization for choir and orchestra festivals.

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The Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) is a leading pan-African arts organisation with a mandate to support the African music sector, particularly music creators. We do this by creating and sharing opportunities for music professionals to learn, exchange, develop and promote their careers, and by actively implementing developmental projects, including, but not limited to, artist mobility, capacity building, educational programmes, performance, lobbying, conferences and other related initiatives. On this page you will find useful information about our existing and previous projects, as well as important updates.

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US-based association advancing music study and teacher professionalism.

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The Southern African Church and Concert Organists’ Society (SAKOV) endeavours to foster a thriving community of church musicians who share their knowledge and live out their passion for the organ. SAKOV aims to set and maintain high musical standards and organ and church music in Southern Africa.

Organisation · South Africa · Afrikaans

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Oldest professional music society in South Africa.

Organisation · South Africa

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Facilitates collaboration among music researchers.

Organisation · South Africa

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Ten-day festival nurturing young talent and international musicianship.

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Represents the generosity and philanthropy of the music products industry.

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Non-profit bringing together therapy associations and professionals.

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