Table of Contents

Introduction Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Maps Abbreviations Part I: Africa 1. African Islands Comoros – Werner Graebner Madagascar – Janet Topp Fargion Mauritius – Guillaume Samson (Trans. Sinclair Robinson) Reunion – Guillaume Samson (Trans. Sinclair Robinson) The Seychelles – Guillaume Samson and Alain Courbis (Trans. Sinclair Robinson) 2. Central Africa Cameroon – Marianne Berna Central African Republic – Michelle Kisliuk Chad – Mary Pearce Congo (Rep.) – Graeme Ewens Dem. Rep. of Congo – Chris Stapleton Equatorial Guinea – Chris Stapleton Gabon Graeme Ewens 3. East Africa Burundi – Rick Sanders Kenya – Caleb Okumu Chrispo Cities: Mombasa – Caleb Okumu Chrispo Nairobi – Caleb Okumu Chrispo Rwanda – Rick Sanders Tanzania – Werner Graebner Regions: Zanzibar – Werner Graebner Uganda – Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza Cities: Kampala – Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza 4. Horn of Africa Djibouti – Andreas Wetter Eritrea – Rick Sanders Ethiopia – Rick Sanders Somalia – Martin Orwin Cities: Muqdisho (Mogadishu) – Martin Orwin Sudan – Stephen Larrik 5. North Africa Algeria – Dave Laing Libya – Philip Ciantar and Abdalla M. Sebai Morocco – Richard C. Jankowsky Regions: Western Sahara – Richard C. Jankowsky Cities: Casablanca – Richard C. Jankowsky Tunisia – Ruth Davis and Richard C. Jankowsky 6. Southern Africa Angola – Gerhard Kubik Botswana – Angela Impey Lesotho – David Coplan Malawi – Moya Aliya Malamusi Mozambique – Joa-o Soeiro de Carvalho Namibia – Minette Mans South Africa – Sazi Dlamini with Christopher Ballantine and Nishlyn Ramanna Cities: Durban – Veit Erlmann Johannesburg – Rob Allingham Soweto – Angela Impey Swaziland – Jonathan Curren Zambia – Rick Sanders Zimbabwe – Chris Stapleton 7. West Africa Benin – Nago Seck and Sylvie Clerfeuille Burkina Faso – Oger Kabore (Trans. Sinclair Robinson) Cape Verde – JoAnne Hoffman Cote d Ivoire – Chris Stapleton The Gambia – Graeme Ewens Ghana – E. John Collins Cities: Accra – E. John Collins Cape Coast – E. John Collins Kumasi E. John Collins Guinea – Gunter Gretz Cities: Conakry – Gunter Gretz Guinea-Bissau – Guus de Klein Liberia – E. John Collins Mali – Banning Eyre Mauritania – Chris Stapleton Niger – Mahaman Garba (trans. Dave Laing) Nigeria – Chris Stapleton Regions: Northern Nigeria – Chris Stapleton Southeastern Nigeria – Meki Nzewi Western Nigeria – Mosunmola Omibiyi-Obidike Cities: Benin City – Emeka Tony Nwabuoku Ibadan – Mosunmola Omibiyi-Obidike Lagos – Oluyemi Olaniyan Onitsha – Meki Nzewi Sao Tome and Principe – Dave Laing Senegal – Patricia Tang Cities: Dakar – Patricia Tang Sierra Leone – Christian D. J. Horton Togo – Nago Seck and Sylvie Clerfeuille Part II: Middle East 8. Middle East Afghanistan – John Baily Armenia – Andy Nercessian Cities: Yerevan – Andy Nercessian Azerbaijan – Fattah Khalig-Zade and Razia Sultanova Bahrain – Kay Hardy Campbell Egypt – Karin van Nieuwkerk Cities: Cairo – Karin van Nieuwkerk Iran – Seyed Abdolhossein Mokhtabad Amrei Iraq – Dave Laing Israel – Motti Regev Cities: Jerusalem – Motti Regev Tel Aviv – Motti Regev Jordan – Sami Asmar Kuwait – Kay Hardy Campbell Lebanon – Sami Asmar Cities: Beirut – Sami Asmar Oman – Dieter Christensen Palestine – Dave Laing Qatar – Kay Hardy Campbell Saudi Arabia – Kay Hardy Campbell Syria – Jonathan H. Shannon Cities: Damascas – Jonathan H. Shannon Halab (Aleppo) – Jonathan H. Shannon

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About the Author

David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music and a founding member of IASPM (The International Association for the Study of Popular Music). Together with the blues scholar Paul Oliver he first proposed the idea of EPMOW in the 1980s, and has worked on the project since that time. John Shepherd is Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (Academic) and Chancellor’s Professor of Music and Sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. In 2000, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his role “as a leading architect of a post-War critical musicology.” Dave Laing is the author of several books on popular music and a former editor of Music Week. He is a former Research Fellow at the University of Westminster, UK where he conducted research on the music industry.