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International Library of African Music (ILAM)

Ethnomusicological recordings, journals and photographic material from across the continent, held by the International Library of African Music (ILAM), one of Africa’s leading music archives.

Published in collaboration with Rhodes University

45 issues · 1,032 articles Browse

Memórias Periféricas da Capoeira Angola de Salvador

Peripheral Memories of Capoeira Angola in Salvador: the personal archive of Mestre Nô.

Part of the Museu Afro-Digital, Universidade Federal da Bahia

44 items Browse

Trabalhadores na/da Bahia

Workers in and from Bahia: Black labour in the city and in the Recôncavo.

Part of the Museu Afro-Digital, Universidade Federal da Bahia

52 items Browse

Orixás – Fundação Gregório de Mattos

Orishas, from the Gregório de Mattos Foundation.

Part of the Museu Afro-Digital, Universidade Federal da Bahia

14 items Browse

DECCA

Nigerian Yoruba popular music issued by the DECCA label: waka, apala, highlife and other styles, digitised from the Gramophone Library of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.

Part of the “Beyond the Digital Return” project at the University of Bayreuth

226 items Browse

Jambo

Swahili and Ganda recordings issued by the East African label Jambo, among them The Kiko Kids, digitised from the Gramophone Library of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.

Part of the “Beyond the Digital Return” project at the University of Bayreuth

72 items Browse