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AMG
All Music Guide. This is a guide to most music styles. The issues
of the artices goes from artists, albums, styles, to music in general.
The site is also related to a movie guide and a game guide. Enjoy. |
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BBC 2
Folk & Acoustic. The BBC online home of Folk & Acoustic.
Description:
BBC Radio 2 Folk and Acoustic website- your essential guide to folk,
roots and acoustic music. Including reviews, features, artist profiles
and more from the world of folk music.. |
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BBC
- Radio 3 - World and New Music homepage: Description: BBC
Radio 3 plays a broad mix of music from around the globe,
on programmes such as Andy Kershaw, Late Junction, World Routes and
Mixing It. The website is packed with audio, video, interviews, features
and live webcasts from major festivals like WOMAD. |
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The
Celtic Cafe Non-commercial and non-profit site devoted to Celtic
music, dance and culture. They also have a nice e-group. Description:
The
Celtic Cafe is your online resource for Celtic music, dance, artists and
so much more! |
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CIA
- The World Fact Book 2000 The Webmaster hates to admit it (He
is anti NATO, and a non militarist), but this is a wealth of concrete information,
populations, ethnic groups, and background information about the countries. |
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Dirty
Linen. American magazine celebrating roots/traditional/folk/world
music. (The site is designed by Cliff Furnald at Rootster/RootsWorld).
The name of the magazine refers to a Fairport Convention tune. |
EthnobeatThe
best discussiongroup on the planet, ever! This is where it all started.
This is the place where the first co-workers of EthnoBass met.
Jokes aside: A nice dicussiongroup!
Description: We are people from all over the World, who share
their interests and knowledge about World and Ethnic Music, Folk and Traditional
music, or new music with roots. Music from everywhere, the label doesn´t
matter!! This is an open world wide group, so you´ll be welcome.
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| FolkLinks.com
Description: Folklinks.com provides worldwide links and information
about folk, acoustic, and roots music. It is a resource for individuals,
organizations, performers, presenters, publishers, musical instrument,
recording, and duplication companies, and others. |
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FolkWorld - Home
of European Music. Description: FolkWorld - Online Music
Magazine and Home of European Folk Music; with news, interviews,
articles, CD and live reviews; Folk & Roots Online Guide; in English
and German language.
Also check out their subpage FROG
- the Folk and Roots Online Guide a guide to the site and a list of
external links |
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 Freemuse.
Danish
site about "Freedom of musical expression" and human rights. |
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fRoots.
(this
magazine throws in a nice bonus cd) Description: The Web pages of
fRoots, the world's leading roots, folk and world music magazine. |
Global Village,
"the
News of the World in the World of Music". A broadcasting based collection
of links. Artists, styles, fests, radio, aid, travel, zines, labels and
more. The linkpages
is also recomended. |
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Globalvillageidiot.net.
Don't
be fooled by the name. This is intelligent. Description: Find the
latest news in world music....the freshest reviews...and interviews with
artists well-known and unknown. |
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the Hunger
Site. 24.000 are dying of hunger daily. Please make a difference,
make a free donation by clicking the button. (The link also brings you
to the Breast
Canser Site and to the
Rainforest Site) |
| MondomixClosely
connected to Womex Description: The world music refernce website,
all the news, artists, festivals, concerts with audio, video, interviews
and exclusive report from all the world. |
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Music
Traditions Online magazine for "Traditional Music troughout the
world." Description: "Musical Traditions is an online magazine celebrating
all aspects of traditional music, from all parts of the world. It
contains record, book and tape reviews, articles long and short, discographies,
pictures, news and comment, letters, and information about the magazine
- its history, plans, policies etc." |
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- MuslimsAgainstTerrorism This is a good place to start if you
want to know more about muslims. (Most of the information nowadays in the
press isen't objective, this neither, but it gives some ballance.) The
site itself is valluable, and it has a lot of informative links. Description:
MATUSA
was founded in the wake of the terrible tragedy of September 11th by a
group of young American Muslims who felt the need to honor the victims
by working for peace. |
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Rootster is
a "cultural search tool" with hundreds of links to artists, record labels,
artists, photographers and musicians around the world.
It's an extension of RootsWorld,"the
online magazine of world music". No introduction needed. The man behind
them both, Cliff must be a workaholic, or a real enthusiast. |
| Womad:
World of Music and Art. Womad is founded by Peter Gabriel among others.
It is a Touring Festival, it is Workshops, Tours and Educational work.
The purpose is: "to promote, maintain, improve and advance education in
world cultures, whilst seeking to excite and inform audiences of the worth
and potential of a multi-cultural society." |
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"World
Music Charts published by AFRICA Iwalewa's Worldmusic Magazine".
In adddition to charts you will find some good links here. Description:
The World Music Charts Europe is compiled by Johannes Theurer on the behalf
of the World Music Workshop of the EBU.
EBU is the European Broadcasting Union. |
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| World
Music Portal A extremely informative site, cowering most of the
world. Articles about artists, books, CD-reviews, and other topics. Lists
of labels, festivals, instruments, ethniomusicolgi resources, booking agents,
and whatever your heart desires. Description:
World Music Portal
provides news about world music, artist biographies, world music festivals
and music books. |
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