World Music Links Pages

Sites

• David Gilden's Links Page. Resources on Africa and world music.
• Ethnomusicology Page. Links to web pages for the study of traditional world music.
  • CD's, Videos, Instruments, and Groups. List of links of world music publishers, retailers, and bands.
• India Links. Indian culture resources, including links to North and South Indian music sites.
• Inside World Music. World music links page run by Paula Kirman, previously the guide at World Music at About.com from 1997 to 2001. This site picks up where that left off, and includes all of the articles and reviews from then to now.
• Guide to Classical Indian/Jazz Fusion. Extensive guide to artists whose music incorporates both Classical Indian and Jazz influences.
• Mike Cohen's World Music Page. Links and information about music from around the world.
• Mondomix.org. Information on world music.
• mp3.com. Bought by C-NET and now deleted, this was at one time the largest collection of mp3 files on the net. They adopted the classification suggestions of Matthew Montfort, leader of the band Ancient Future, and coiner of the term world fusion music, for their world music pages, dividing them into World Traditions and World Fusion categories as he suggested below. These recommendations have now been copied on other sites.
  • World Music:
    • World Fusion Music. Music that combines ideas from many traditions.
    • World Traditions. Music based predominately on one tradition.
• Mundialmusic.com. Information on world music.
• Sitar Fusions. Gerald Van Waes of Radio Centraal in Belgium put together this list of sitar fusion music.
• Tim's World and Progressive Music Page. Internet resources about world, traditional, and progressive music from the last 30 years.
• Squidoo. Links to unusual music, musicians and musical instruments.
• TheWorld.org. Has archives of global music.
• Worldmusic.about.com. World music articles and links at About.com.
• World Music Portal. Hub for world music information, featuring CD reviews, festivals, artist biographies, links, photos, and world music news from around the globe.

Search Engines

• ancient-future.com. Search this site.
• anyTitle.com. Search engine for music titles.
• Cakraweb IndoDirektori. Indonesian language search engine. Useful for researching Indonesian music.
• Egyptbot. Search engine for sites about Egypt and Egyptian culture.
• Find the CD. A CD search engine developed and maintained by Viba IT Sweden. Find the CD lets the visitor search through a database with about 2 million music CD albums in two different ways.
• Hindustan.net. Search for North Indian culture sites.
• Matilda Directfind. Australian site allows searches in more than 30 languages.
• MusicSearch. A search engine for music sites.
• Songsearch.com. Search for songs.
• SouthAsia.net. A search engine for South Asian resources. Useful for researching South Asian music.
• Top Note. Search engine for bands and sound files.
• World Records. A search engine for information about music. Also has a record catalog that includes some world music among its many offerings.
• Yahoo! In a bow to Ancient Future, the popular Internet search engine Yahoo! has added the following new world fusion categories to its directory:
  • Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/World_Fusion/. Included are links to Ancient Future and many other artists who are part of the movement.
  • Entertainment/Music/World_Music/World_Fusion/ . Links pages focusing on world fusion music, including, of course, this site.
  • Business_and_Economy/Companies/Music/Labels/World_Music/World_Fusion/ . World fusion music record labels.
• Yellow Pages. Free yellow pages includes music businesses.