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	AFRICA - Explore the Regions - Ethiopian Highlands
		Traditional Ethiopian music is renowned for its other-worldly feel, shaped by its isolated setting in the craggy peaks of the Ethiopian highlands.
		Songs praising political leaders are common in Africa but in Ethiopia they take on a special significance.
		The Ethiopian emperor was believed to be a direct descendant of the biblical King Solomon and was seen as the embodiment of Ethiopia's ancient history.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/africa/explore/ethiopia/ethiopia_music_lo.html (0 words)

	Music of Ethiopia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ethiopian music is strongly influenced by Muslim forms as well as folk musics from the Horn of Africa, especially Somalia.
		Of course, popular music is played, recorded and listened to, but most musicians also sing traditional songs, and most audiences choose to listen to both popular and traditional styles.
		The first popular music tradition in Ethiopia was brass bands, imported from Europe during the reign of Haile Selassie.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Music_of_Ethiopia (577 words)

	A Preview of Ethiopian ...
		All this displays the belief and worship of spirits which formed the basis of religion in early man and the earliest musical practices of the African inhabitants of this part of the continent.
		In Ethiopian music the earliest style is a personal lament of Ingurguro which has a simple form with small ranges of undulating movement.
		One of the mysteries which has never been cleared up by the studies of different scholars and which led to confusion in identifying the music of Ethiopia from that of Arabia is its melismatic nature.
	www.ethiopians.com /eth_musika.htm (981 words)

	Nazret.com EthioBlog - Ethiopia Music Videos Move Beyond 'ETV Style'
		Music videos in Addis Abeba were traditionally considered to be dull, associated with a singer standing in front of a beige curtain on one of the ETV sound stages with a microphone in her hands as she lip-synched to a song, often nervously and off beat.
		According to her, casting in music videos is not so difficult in Ethiopia, because Ethiopian women are generally beautiful.
		One music fan, an architect aged 27, said that she did not understand why there was so much hype about something that is going to end up as dull as our film industry.
	nazret.com /blog/index.php?title=ethiopia_music_videos_move_beyond_etv_st&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 (802 words)

	Recording review: Ethiopian Urban and Tribal Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ethiopia absorbed cultural influences from inner Africa (north to the Sahara and south to Kenya) and also from the Red Sea and Arabia.
		The consequence is a nation with a music of extraordinary scope and diversity.
		A very wonderful and brief introduction to the urban and tribal music of Ethiopia, with an emphasis on "tribal"; these are not the "urban" pop music tunes of the '70s.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/ethiopia-mindanoo.html (340 words)

	ALLEGRO MUSIC - Ethiopiques
		These raw sounds of Ethiopia were originally put out by Amha Records—a label founded in 1969 by 24-year-old Amha Eshèté in defiance of the Imperial decree requiring all music production and import to be overseen by the government-sanctioned national theater.
		The literal translation of the word "Tezeta" is memory, or nostalgia, and as it applies to music in Ethiopia it is akin to the American genre known as the blues, hence the subtitle of this collection.
		From the early '60s through to 1974, Ethiopia lived its "wild years:" the years of pop, soul and rock 'n roll; of miniskirts and bell-bottoms, of Afros and Elvis hairdos--it was a time of intense urban fun.
	www.allegro-music.com /ethiopiques.asp (1460 words)

	Music of Northern Ethiopia
		The music springs from this heritage and some of the instruments have been traced back 3000 years or more, appearing in the paintings and descriptions on the walls of Egyptian tombs and temples.
		The selections reflect the ethnic diversity to be found in Northern Ethiopia and covers a wide cross section of music making between February and June 1991, in the province of Tigray.
		Included are Tigrinya songs, the language of the majority in Tigray, songs of the Kunama and Agew nationalities, Ge'ez the ancient language of Ethiopia used by the Ethiopian Orthodox church, Arabic used by Moslems during prayer and a song in Amharic.
	www.musicnow.co.uk /m-html/cd201.htm (412 words)

	Music of Ethiopia
		Music of Ethiopia has quite a long history and tradition.
		The following are clips of the liturgical music of the Ethiopian church.
		The following music clips are copyrighted to Yared Haile Sellassie and used with permission.
	library.thinkquest.org /C002739/AfricaSite/3EthMusic.htm (0 words)

	World Music Discography
		Music, mostly instrumental, of the Linda and Dakpa subgroups of the Banda people.
		Sung in the language of the Fodonon, a subgroup of the Senufo, of West Africa.
		Sudan : music of the Blue Nile Province : the Ingessana and Berta tribes = Soudan : musique de la province du Nil Bleu : tribus des Ingessana et des Berta.
	libweb.uoregon.edu /music/Discographies/worlddisco/worldiscoaf.html (766 words)

	World Music Network feature: Ethiopia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Their music, in particular, was developed away from any contact with their African neighbours and it was necessary to wait till the end of the nineteenth century for the first real external influences to be felt, a result of the brass instruments sent as gift to Emperor Menelik by the Russian Tsar.
		It was mainly after World War II that modern Ethiopian music experienced its largest changes, and the twenty years between the inauguration of the Haile Selassie Theatre (1955) and the fall of the emperor (1974) are seen as the golden age of Ethiopian music.
		Ethiopia was not immune to this, and its music was to evolve in a very singular manner — like just about everything Ethiopian.
	www.worldmusic.net /home/features/ethiopia.html (1277 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Music of Ethiopia
		The most popular musician from Ethiopia is the Los Angeles-area exile Aster Aweke.
		During the 1980s, a dictatorship ruled Ethiopia, and emigration became almost impossible.
		Currently the most prominent Ethiopian singer internationally is Ejigayehu "Gigi" Shibabaw, who has brought Ethiopian music to popular attention, especially in America, where she now lives, through performing with top jazz musicians like Bill Laswell and Herbie Hancock
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Music_of_Ethiopia (671 words)

	What's New In World Music
		The band is composed of prominent players in the world music community including the magical Senegalese percussionist Aiyb Dieng, the virtuoso tabla-player Karsh Kale, the guitarist/accordionist Tony Cedras (known for his work on Paul Simon's Graceland project), the Ethiopian saxophonist Moges Habte, and world music producer/musician Bill Laswell, with a rare performance on acoustic guitar.
		Since the music of Mali is the source of much of the world’s popular music (the blues, RandB, soul, rock, funk, hip-hop), Issa Bagayogo’s recordings are like an introduction to a great-grandparent you didn’t know was still alive.
		This is the magic of Issa Bagayogo’s music, this elusive connection between the rhythms of ancient Mali and modern dance music.
	www.urbanmozaik.com /UM.Summer2004/2004.summer.html/summer04_dept.music.html (2066 words)

	Music Page at Haile Sellassie WWW, HIM Site
		In this record, there are four distinct forms to be noted: the popular music, the liturgical music, the polyphonies of the Dorze and those of the tribes of the South-West of Ethiopia.
		Ethiopia of today is rich of more than 75,000 priests, 12,000 churches and about 8,000 monasteries in full swing, so, it is one of the countries where the faith is the most fervent.
		Church music has three of these, and legend has it that they were revealed to St. Yared during a vision in the 6th century.
	filmplus.org /him/music.html (1464 words)

	Ethiopia - Traditional Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		During the classical era, and for some period afterward, Ethiopia was one of the most cosmopolitan countries in the region, with close links along the Red Sea, out to India and into the Mediterranean.
		The music itself is very much melodically driven, frequently with interesting harmonic accompaniments which anticipate American "blues" (a traceable influence) and relatively little emphasis on percussion.
		The liturgical music has also been given a modal organization, one which seems to be reflected at times in the secular songs, but apparently not systematically so.
	www.medieval.org /music/world/ethiopia.html (0 words)

	Ethiopia facts, Ethiopia travel videos, flags, photos - National Geographic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ethiopia is a landlocked country in the northeast African region known as the Horn of Africa.
		In the mountains of Ethiopia, the male galada monkeys must keep their females happy to keep their family together.
		Meet the Keeper of the Ark, a small man with a heavy burden who never leaves the grounds of a remote monastery at the edge of Lake Tana.
	www3.nationalgeographic.com /places/countries/country_ethiopia.html (527 words)

	Ethiopia, Africa - Ethiopian music
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		He was one of the first to record music to vinyl in Ethiopian and is the winner of a Tchaikovsky composition award at the International Music Festival in Dresden, Germany.
		Hamelmal Abate is one of the shining new stars in the rapidly expanding firmament of international music.
	www.africaguide.com /country/ethiopia/music.htm (0 words)

	La Folia -- Music of Ethiopia and China
		The one-minute sample of their music sounds wild and wonderful, with ululating voices and cowbells, fading out on a one-pitch chant.
		Poet Mary Armeede mentions the mixture of religions in Ethiopia, in a twelve-minute song: "I have mixed the Muslim with the Christian.
		Since the first mention of musical notation is from the second century B.C., the composition must have been handed down orally if that attribution is correct.
	www.lafolia.com /archive/reigle/reigle200002ethiopia.html (1292 words)

	Ethiopia: National Geographic World Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ethiopia has known much isolation since its rise from the dust of the Axum kingdom in 500 B.C. Already a Christian land when Islam swept through northern Africa, Ethiopia survived a bout with Portuguese colonialism only to descend into civil wars after forcing the conquerors out in the 19th century.
		His music's slinky feel suggests a Latin tinge and a taste of soul.
		Perhaps the biggest change in Ethiopian music is that long-dominant Amharic music now competes with neotraditional styles from regions like Tigray, Gonder and Oromo.
	worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com /worldmusic/view/page.basic/country/content.country/ethiopia_198?fs=www3.nationalgeographic.com&fs=plasma.nationalgeographic.com (884 words)

	The Music Library at The University of South Carolina
		The USC Music Library has a large collection ofmonographs and sound recordings relating to the music of East Africa.
		Music of the Kuria and the Gusii of Western Kenya.
		The Music of Central Africa: An Ethnomusicological Study: Former French Equatorial Africa; the Former Belgian Congo, Ruanda-Urundi; Uganda, Tanganyika.
	www.sc.edu /library/music/east_africa.html (356 words)

	Africa Book Centre Limited Music on CD
		NYABOLE. Music of the Hamar of Southern Ethiopia
		The music of the Hamar is varied as this album shows. The playing of the mouth bow, the sound of the flute,; the interplay of voice and lyre stand alongside running songs, leaping dances and war songs. The recordings were made between 1970 and 1976. 14 tracks, 77:21 mins, GERMANY. HARMONIA MUNDI UK LTD,
		A collection of devotional music sung in Amharic by a fresh voice from Addis Ababa. The album is primarily acoustic with progressive interpretations of liturgical church modes of singing. Includes a booklet in English, French and German. 10 tracks, 53:13mins, GERMANY. NETWORK MEDIEN GMBH,
	www.africabookcentre.com /acatalog/Ethiopia_Music.html (270 words)

	Traditional Krar Music of Ethiopia - Picture and Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		Traditional Krar Music of Ethiopia - Picture and Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
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		"Gerf" (Seleshe Damessae) Owl's Head Pulishing Co. (BMI) from Seleshe Damessae: Tesfaye: A Future Hope (Cat.# Music of the World T-107) (p)1990 Music of the World, Ltd. All rights reserved./Dr. Abiyi Ford/© 1990 Music of the World Ltd.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461526029/Traditional_Krar_Music_of_Ethiopia.html (160 words)

	Get Music of the World
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		Music of the World CDs can be purchased through the World Music Institute.
		Recordings of Quechua and traditional music of Aymara.
	www.musicoftheworld.com /buy_download.html (494 words)

	Music @ Wesleyan
		Kaloyanides, Michael G. The Music of Cretan Dances: A Study of the Musical Structures of Cretan Dance Forms as Perfomed in the Irakleion Province of Crete.
		Wolberger, Lionel A. Music of Holy Argument: The Ethnomusicology of Talmudic Debate.
		Music and Dance of Haitian Vodou: Diversity and Unity in Regional Repertoires.
	www.wesleyan.edu /music/curriculum/Wesdisslist.html (833 words)

	Music of Ethiopia: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Music of Ethiopia: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		In northeastern Ethiopia, the region Wello[?], an Islamic musical[?] form called manzuma[?] developed.
		Post a link to definition / meaning of " Music of Ethiopia " on your site.
	www.encyclopedian.com /et/Ethiopian-music.html (126 words)

	World Music Network Catalogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		While all sorts of music are accessible to lovers of diverse sounds, Ethiopia is often regarded as the forgotten musical continent, the missing link within the pan-African harmony.
		Morocco is a musical wonderland, stuffed with a bewildering surfeit of sounds; raw, sophisticated, ancient, modern, acoustic, electronic, mellow, fierce, deeply spiritual and extravagantly hedonistic.
		Originating in the hinterlands of Oran, which stretch from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Sahara desert in the south, it is the beat-driven, rebel pop music of Algeria.
	www.worldmusic.net /catalogue/n_africa.html (1576 words)

	The World Of Ethiopia Music \| CheckOutEthiopia.Com
		music are influenced by religious beliefs from Islam while other forms take their influence from a lot of the folk music in the area.
		Since then, music has grown throughout the land again and people are practicing all sorts of new styles and flavors of music in their villages and towns.
		Ethiopia rebels warn catastrophe looming in Ogaden (CNN.com)
	www.checkoutethiopia.com /135/the-world-of-ethiopia-music.html (0 words)

	Amazon.com: Music from Ethiopia: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Here are the roots and popular fronds of Ethiopian music in the last half of the century.
		This collection is a nicely laid out mix of some of the oldest of folk music from the area and some of the best pop.
		Find out in Music You Should Hear, where these and other artists tell you about the music they love.
	www.amazon.com /Music-Ethiopia-Various-Artists/dp/B000000UI1 (0 words)

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