An Anthology of African Music

An Anthology of African Music is a series of recordings of traditional music that was made for the International Music Council by the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation (Berlin/Venice) and released on the Musicaphon label by Bärenreiter (Kassel/Basel/London). The series was directed by Paul Collaer. It was part of the larger and longer enduring UNESCO Collection series.

Recordings

 * Music of the Dan &mdash; BM 30 L 2301
 * Reissued as Rounder CD 5105. Review by Adam Greenberg on Allmusic, [].


 * Music from Rwanda &mdash; BM 30 L 2302
 * Reissued as Rounder CD 5106. Review by Adam Greenberg on Allmusic, [].


 * Ba-Benzélé Pygmies &mdash; BM 30 L 2303
 * Reissued as Rounder CD 5107.  Review by Eugene Chadbourne on Allmusic, [].
 * The three albums above (Dan through Ba-Benzélé Pygmies) were reviewed by David Rycroft in Journal of the International Folk Music Council 19 (1967), pp. 164-166,.


 * Ethiopia I - Music of the Ethiopian Coptic Church &mdash; BM 30 L 2304
 * Ethiopia II - Music of the Cushitic Peoples of South-West Ethiopia &mdash; BM 30 L 2305
 * These two albums reviewed by Kurt Suttner in Ethnomusicology 14, #3 (September 1970), pp. 530-532,.


 * Nigeria-Hausa Music I &mdash; BM 30 L 2306
 * Nigeria-Hausa Music II &mdash; BM 30 L 2307
 * Music of the Senufo &mdash; BM 30 L 2308
 * Chad Kanem &mdash; BM 30 L 2309
 * Musics of the Central African Republic &mdash; BM 30 L 2310
 * Reviewed by Alan P. Merriam in Ethnomusicology 15, #2 (May 1971), pp. 300-302,.


 * Nigeria III: Igbo Music &mdash; BM 30 L 2311
 * Reviewed by Darius L. Thieme in Ethnomusicology 36, #1 (Winter 1992), pp. 137-140,.


 * Sudan I - Music of the Blue Nile Province; The Gumuz Tribe &mdash; BM 30 SL 2312 (1986)
 * Reissued as Auvidis D 8072.


 * Sudan II - Music of the Blue Nile Province; The Ingessana and Berta Tribes &mdash; BM 30 SL 2313 (1986)
 * Reissued as Auvidis D 8073.
 * The two albums above were reviewed by Cynthia Tse Kimberlin in Ethnomusicology 34, #2 (Spring-Summer 1990), pp. 349-352,.


 * Ethiopia III - Three Chordophone Traditions &mdash; BM 30 SL 2314 (c. 1985)
 * Reissued as Auvidis D 8074. Reviewed by Ashenafi Kebede in Ethnomusicology 34, #1 (Winter 1990), pp. 196-198,.