Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Southern African Music and Sound


 * The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The proposed WikiProject was not created. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 10:17, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Southern African Music and Sound, a WikiProject and working group dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of entries related to the musical heritage of Southern Africa.

The aim of this project is to compile an online and open access Southern African Encyclopedia of Music and Sound within Wikipedia. This project will serve a decolonial function and contribute to developing African scholarship by including entries on different genres, styles, traditions, cultures and practices in South Africa’s eleven official languages, and in the longer run also include other Southern African and African languages. Thus it will open up the field of Southern African music and sound studies to as wide a readership as possible.

The objective of the project is to create Wikipedia entries from materials regenerated from the previous South African Music Encyclopedia and the archive that made its writing and publication possible, together with new contributions from South African scholars, practitioners, and other interested parties. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Viljowf (talk • contribs) 13:37, 15 February 2024 (UTC)