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The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) is streaming nearly 8,000 Syliphone tracks at British Library Sounds. It’s the first online sound initiative from EAP. The extensive Syliphone ...

Banlieuz'art is a Guinean music group made up of two members, Konko Malela and King Salaman. They modernize the local traditional sound making it accessible to new listeners by infusing it with hip ...

To mark its first birthday, the blog African Music Treasures about African music rarities of the Voice of America music archive, features some of the more famous recordings in their collection of ...

The World of Music, new series, Vol. 6, No. 2, Sounding Ethnicity: New Perspectives on Music, Identity and Place (2017), pp. 115-130 (16 pages) ...

CAM’S MELODIE, whose real name is Mohamed Camara, is one of the rare multidisciplinary artists redefining the Guinean creative landscape. Born in Conakry, he has emerged as a complete creator: ...

Sterns Music's lovingly put-together compilations of work by stars of Francophone West African music's "belle époque"—the decade and a half accompanying and immediately following the independence ...

Oumar Keita sat on the steps of his Sixth Street home, wearing loose, colorful clothes, playing his bolon, a traditional Guinean instrument made of calabash gourd, goat skin, wood and twine. The sun ...

Ghana-based Benjamin Lebrave speaks fluent French and English, and can schmooze in Spanish and Portuguese. He’ll report on new African music every other week. This week, he writes about Guinea ...

Queen Rima (born Born Marie Tolno) is considered one of the pioneers of dancehall in her native Guinea Conakry, a style that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s in Jamaica before taking the world by storm.

BEIRUT: “I am discovering Lebanon, playing music with Zeid,” said Guinean musician and composer Kandjha Kouyate, “and discovering the shawarma.” Born to a family of musicians, Kouyate met with ...

What is the power of one human voice, in speech or song? The sound of a human voice can bring us together or can be ignored. When Nomi Dave got her dream job with the United Nations, little did she ...