African Music
CENTRAL AFRICAN MUSIC | EAST AFRICAN MUSIC | NORTHERN AFRICAN MUSIC | SOUTHERN AFRICAN MUSIC | WEST AFRICAN MUSIC | MATRIX OF MODERN MUSIC | TRADITION AND MODERNITY | REFERENCES
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AFRICAN MUSIC – MP3 DOWNLOADS
A range of Africa Music available for you to download in MP3 format – available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software. This means that customers are free to enjoy their music downloads using any hardware device; organize their music using any music management application, and burn songs to CDs.
GENERAL AFRICAN MUSIC
- Rough Guide To African Blues (3rd Edition) – Various artists
- Spirit of Africa – Cesaria Evora Spirit of Africa Format: Audio CD
- Exotic Voices From Africa: 30 Of The Best African Vocal Groups – Ladysmith Black Mambazo Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide: The Music of Africa – Various Artists (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- New African Composers Volume 1 by Various Artists (2002) – Format: Audio CD
- Unwired Africa by Various Artists – Format: Audio CD
- Oxfam Africa: Dance Rhythms From Algeria to Zimbabwe by Various Artists (2001) – Format: Audio CD
- African Blues – Ali Farka Toure Format: Audio CD
- Music of Africa – African Drum Masters (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- Putumayo Presents: Afro-Portuguese Odyssey – Various Artists (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- African Odyssey – Les Go (Performer), Oliver Mtukudzi (Performer), Augusto Cego (Performer) Format: Audio CD
- Drums Of Passion by Olatunji (2002) – Format: Audio CD
- Drums of Passion: The Beat – Mickey Hart The World (Rykodisc/Mickey Hart Series) Babatunde Olatunji Format: Audio CD
- From Dance to Trance – Guem Format: Audio CD
- African Percussion for Trance – Guem (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- Voyager Series – African Rhythms – Voyager Series (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- African Drums – Various Artists (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- African Drums – Traditional Mandingue Rhythms – Mamady Ijalit Keita (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- African Drums & Voices – Various Artists – Format: Audio CD
- Voyager Series: Jungle Drums by Jungle Drums (2001) – Format: Audio CD
- The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music – Includes 5 CDs & 1 DVD – Various Artists (Performer) Format: Audio CD
- African Rhythms – Various Artists (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- African Tribal Music And Dances Digitally Remastered Sonar Senghor – Sonar Senghor (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide To African Lullabies – Various Artists (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- African Voices: Songs of Life by African Voices (1996) Audio CD
- Best Of Today’s African Folk Music, Vol. 2 – Queen’s Royal Pipers Clan Sutherland Pipe Band Format: Audio CD
CENTRAL AFRICAN MUSIC
- Africa: Aka Pygmy Music – Format: Audio CD
- Music of the Rain Forest Pygmies: The Historic Recordings Made By Colin M. Turnbull by Various Artists (1993) – Format: Audio CD
- The Rough Guide to Franco: Africa’s Legendary Guitar Maestro by Various Artists – Format: Audio CD
- Very Best of the Rumba Giant of Zaire – Franco Format: Audio CD
- Africa Worldwide: 35th Anniversary Album by Tabu Ley Rochereau (1996) – Format: Audio CD
- Originalite: First Recordings 1956-1957 – Franco Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to Congolese Soukous – Various Artists (Artist) Format: Audio CD
EAST AFRICAN MUSIC
- Uganda & Other African Nations: Feasts of the Savanna – Audio CD
- The Rough Guide to Music of Kenya (Rough Guide World Music CDs) – Audio CD
- Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central and East African Music – Hugh Tracey (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- I Am In Love With East African Music – Kiwiro Matata Jazz Band
- Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & ’80s by Various Artists – Format: Audio CD
- The Secret Museum of Mankind: Music of East Africa-Ethnic Music Classics, 1925-48 – Format: Audio CD
- East African Music Vol.1
- Kenya Special, Vol. 2 (Selected East African Recordings from the 1970’s & 80’s) – Various artists
NORTHERN AFRICAN MUSIC
- Rough Guide to World Music – Various Artists – Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to North African Music – Various Artists – Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to Mediterranean Cafe Music – Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to the Music of Morocco – Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to the Music of Egypt – Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to North African Cafe by Various Artists (2007) – Format: Audio CD
- Desert Blues, Vol. 3 – Entre dunes et savanes – Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to the Music of Ethiopia – Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide To Ethiopia – Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide To Ethiopian Jazz – Format: Audio CD
- North African Essentials – Various Artists – Format: Audio CD
- Sudan: Music of the Blue Nile Province – Berta & Ingessana Tribes Format: Audio CD
- Rai: Best of Original North African Grooves by Rai: Best of the Original North African Grooves
SOUTHERN AFRICAN MUSIC
- The Rough Guide To The Music Of South Africa – Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to the Soul Brothers – Format: Audio CD
- Homeland – A Collection of South African Music – Format: Audio CD
- Homeland – Vol. 2: Collection of Black South African Music by Various Artists (1990) – Audio CD
- Rough Guide to South African Jazz – Thelani AJB feat. West Nkosi (Performer) Format: Audio CD
- South African Choral – Youth Choir Alexandra (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- Zulu Worker Choirs In South Africa – Various Artists (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- Blessed – The Soweto Gospel Choir Format: Audio CD
- Live at the Nelson Mandela Theatre – The Soweto Gospel Choir Format: Audio CD
- Explorer: Zimbabwe – Shona Mbira Music – Format: Audio CD
- Zimbabwe: The African Mbira – Music of the Shona People Explorer Series – Dumisani Abraham Maraire Dumisani Maraire Format: Audio CD
- African Renaissance 5: Ndebele & North Sotho by African Renaissance 5: Ndebele & North Sotho (2000) – Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to Lucky Dube – Format: Audio CD
- Indestructible Beat of Soweto – Format: Audio CD
- African Renaissance 9: Nguni Choral & Mbhaqanga – Format: Audio CD
- South African Legends – Putumayo Presents – Format: Audio CD
- Best of Ladysmith Black mambazo – Format: Audio CD
- Soul Marrabenta – Format: Audio CD
- Yellela – Eyuphuro Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to Marrabenta Mozambique – Various Artists – Format: Audio CD
- Karimbo by Mabulu (2000) – Format: Audio CD
WEST AFRICAN MUSIC
- The Rough Guide to West African Music – Various Artists (Artist) Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to Nigeria & Ghana – Format: Audio CD
- The Rough Guide to the Music of Senegal and Gambia – Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to the music of Mali – Format: Audio CD
- Classic High Life – Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to Manu Dibango – Format: Audio CD
- Best of Fela Kuti/Music Is a Weapon [2CD + DVD] by Fela Kuti (2005)
- African Rhythms and Instruments Vol.1: Mali, Niger, Ghana, Nigeria, Upper Volta, Senegal by Various Artists (2003) – Various Artists – Format: Audio CD
- Frederic Galliano & African Divas by Frederic Galliano & African Divas (2002) – Audio CD
- Tabala Wolof: Sufi Drumming Of Senegal – Boubacar Diagne Format: Audio CD
- N’wolof – Orchestra Baobab Format: Audio CD
- Kora Melodies from the Republic of the Gambia, West Africa – Alhaji Bai Konte Format: Audio CD
- The Rough Guide to Youssou N’Dour & Etoile De Dakar by Youssou N’Dour & Etoile De Dakar (2002) – Audio CD
- The Rough Guide to the Music of Mali and Guinea: Kora Kings and Griot Minstrels – Various Artists – Format: Audio CD
- Rough Guide to Music of Cape Verde – Cesaria Evora Format: Audio CD