Djembe & Mande Music Page/African Links (last revision 02/26/99)  Online Journals [ToC] [LINKS INDEX]   Africulture - Le Mensuel des cultures africaines      http://www.africultures.com/accueil_an.htm Afrika News on the World Wide Web      http://www.africanews.org/ Afrika News is a source of up-to-date information on Africa. The site  is your one-stop source for the latest news from more than 40 African news organizations. Indexed by regions and countries, not to mention thematic categories e.g. arts, business, education etc. it's easy to use and very informative. Additional resources, background documents and a searchable archive make this site an invaluable resource about modern Africa. African Studies Quarterly      http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/index.htm African Studies Quarterly is an interdisciplinary, fully-refereed, indexed publication; articles may be received as well via email. Djembe Online     http://www.djembe.dk/ A Scandinavian online magazine on world music, some English articles in between a lot of material in Danish. Ethnomusicology OnLine     http://research.umbc.edu/efhm/ A peer-reviewed multimedia Web journal. Internet Journal of African Studies     http://www.brad.ac.uk/research/ijas/ Mots Pluriels     http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/ "MOTS PLURIELS is a refereed electronic and international journal open to literary minded scholars wishing to share their point of view on important contemporary world issues." It's an interesting project and I'd recommend the following papers:   Who will teach about Africa?:          a personal view by Judith Van Allen  Beyond ownership :           on the permission to perform the Sunjata epic by Jan Jansen  Re-invoking the Griotte tradition as a feminist textual strategy       by Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe  Music & Anthropology: Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean and Beyond      http://gotan.cirfid.unibo.it/m&a/index.htm "Music & Anthropology (M&A) is an online multimedia interactive journal, founded by the Study Group on "Anthropology of Music in Mediterranean Cultures" of the International Council for Traditional Music. M&A is hosted by the Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo (Università di Bologna), and supported by the Fondazione Olga e Ugo Levi, Venezia." Of particular interest is an article by Bruno Nettl  "Relating the present to the past: thoughts on the study of musical change and culture change in ethnomusicology"    http://gotan.cirfid.unibo.it/m&a/index/number1/nettl1/ne1.htm Although the article doesn't refer specifically to African music, it is very interesting and provides plenty of food for thought. Nettl's discussion can be easily applied to the tension between traditional and modern trends of African music. Rootsworld      http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/ A magazine of world music, roots music, music from around the planet. Transcultural Music Review      http://www2.uji.es/trans/ TRANS explores all kinds of music from transcultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. [ToC] [ToP] [LINKS INDEX]