User talk:Nposs/Music 250/Berber music EDIT

Suggested reading
Here are a few sources to get you started the Eyre and Goodman will probably be most useful. You are encouraged to find your own scholarly articles and books as well as web resources.

Eyre, Banning (Author). 2003. "Amazigh grace: An introduction to the music and history of the North African Berbers." Sing out! Folk music–Folk songs 47, no. 1: 49. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, EBSCOhost (accessed October 7, 2009).

Goodman, Jane E. (Author). 2005. Berber culture on the world stage: From village to video. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (IN) Bloomington, IN, 2005.

Schuyler, Philip D. (Author). 1984. "Berber professional musicians in performance." 1984.

Morgan, Andy (Author). 2004. "Guerilla of pop: Matoub Lounès and the struggle for Berber identity in Algeria." 2004.

Lortat-Jacob, Bernard (Author). 1979. "Music as a collective enterprise: the case of Berber music of the High Atlas." The world of music/Die Welt der Musik/Le monde de la musique 21, no. 3: 62.

Schuyler, Philip D. (Author). 1979. "Rwais and ahwash: opposing tendencies in Moroccan Berber music and society." The world of music/Die Welt der Musik/Le monde de la musique 21, no. 1: 65. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, EBSCOhost (accessed October 7, 2009). --Nposs (talk) 18:53, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Draft reivew
I think you have a very good start on this article, but there are some areas for improvement. First of all, EAppiah, your introduction belongs at the beginning, not in a separate section below the table of contents. Just work what you have written into the existing introduction paragraph. The Musical/vocal styles, might be renamed Genres. Also, can you find a better way to fit the existing information on the various countries into your article? For example, a major section called Music by region, with the countries and Tuareg listed as subheadings. Check over the existing external links. Some are not encyclopedic and there might be one or two better ones to add. In your references, I see many websites, but few encyclopedia or journal articles. Please work these in. Also, when you use a link to website as a reference, be sure to add a brief description of it. I'll provide a link below to an automatic reference generator. Other things to do:
 * Remove your signatures from the article itself. (You only need to sign your comments on talk pages).
 * Wikify the text (that is, put in appropriate links to other wikipedia articles. See WP:LINK for details)
 * Put in references. WP:CITE has general information about how to do it. Here http://toolserver.org/~magnus/makeref.php is a link to an online reference template generator. Enter the details of the reference and it will output the correct wikicode to paste into the article.
 * External links? Images? See WP:FIT.

You can use this section to discuss your changes. Nposs (talk) 15:43, 13 November 2009 (UTC)