List of scholars of African music

The following people are known for their scholarly contributions to the ethnomusicology of the music of Africa:
 * V. Kofi Agawu (born 1956), professor of music and African and African-American studies at Harvard; studied music of the Ewe people of Ghana
 * Paul Berliner (born 1946), won ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for his ethnomusicology book on the Zimbabwean mbira
 * John Blacking (1928–1990), earned doctorate at University of the Witwatersrand for his work on Venda children's songs
 * Akin Euba (born 1935), composer and ethnomusicologist of West African music, founded the theory of African pianism
 * Arthur Morris Jones (1889–1980), early 20th century missionary who published two-volume Studies in African Music
 * Gerhard Kubik (born 1934), author of books on the theory of African music and on the African roots of American music
 * Alan P. Merriam (1923-1980), author of African Music in Perspective
 * Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia (born 1921)
 * Andrew Tracey (born 1936)
 * Hugh Tracey (1903–1977), founding director of the International Library of African Music
 * Colin Turnbull (1924–1994)