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.

• Introduction Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Maps AbbreviationsPart I: Africa1. African IslandsComoros – Werner GraebnerMadagascar – Janet Topp FargionMauritius – Guillaume Samson (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)Reunion – Guillaume Samson (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)The Seychelles – Guillaume Samson and Alain Courbis (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)2. Central AfricaCameroon – Marianne BernaCentral African Republic – Michelle KisliukChad – Mary PearceCongo (Rep.) – Graeme EwensDem. Rep. of Congo – Chris StapletonEquatorial Guinea – Chris StapletonGabon Graeme Ewens3. East AfricaBurundi – Rick SandersKenya – Caleb Okumu ChrispoCities: Mombasa – Caleb Okumu ChrispoNairobi – Caleb Okumu ChrispoRwanda – Rick SandersTanzania – Werner GraebnerRegions:Zanzibar – Werner GraebnerUganda – Sylvia Nannyonga-TamusuzaCities:Kampala – Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza4. Horn of Africa Djibouti – Andreas WetterEritrea – Rick SandersEthiopia – Rick SandersSomalia – Martin OrwinCities: Muqdisho (Mogadishu) – Martin OrwinSudan – Stephen Larrik5. North Africa Algeria – Dave LaingLibya – Philip Ciantar and Abdalla M. SebaiMorocco – Richard C. JankowskyRegions: Western Sahara – Richard C. JankowskyCities: Casablanca – Richard C. JankowskyTunisia – Ruth Davis and Richard C. Jankowsky6. Southern Africa Angola – Gerhard KubikBotswana – Angela ImpeyLesotho – David CoplanMalawi – Moya Aliya MalamusiMozambique – Joa-o Soeiro de CarvalhoNamibia – Minette MansSouth Africa – Sazi Dlamini with Christopher Ballantine and Nishlyn RamannaCities: Durban – Veit ErlmannJohannesburg – Rob AllinghamSoweto – Angela ImpeySwaziland – Jonathan CurrenZambia – Rick SandersZimbabwe – Chris Stapleton7. West Africa Benin – Nago Seck and Sylvie ClerfeuilleBurkina Faso – Oger Kabore (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)Cape Verde – JoAnne HoffmanCote d Ivoire – Chris StapletonThe Gambia – Graeme EwensGhana – E. John CollinsCities: Accra – E. John CollinsCape Coast – E. John CollinsKumasi E. John CollinsGuinea – Gunter GretzCities: Conakry – Gunter GretzGuinea-Bissau – Guus de KleinLiberia – E. John CollinsMali – Banning EyreMauritania – Chris StapletonNiger – Mahaman Garba (trans. Dave Laing)Nigeria – Chris StapletonRegions: Northern Nigeria – Chris StapletonSoutheastern Nigeria – Meki NzewiWestern Nigeria – Mosunmola Omibiyi-ObidikeCities: Benin City – Emeka Tony NwabuokuIbadan – Mosunmola Omibiyi-ObidikeLagos – Oluyemi OlaniyanOnitsha – Meki NzewiSao Tome and Principe – Dave LaingSenegal – Patricia TangCities: Dakar – Patricia TangSierra Leone – Christian D. J. HortonTogo – Nago Seck and Sylvie ClerfeuillePart II: Middle East8. Middle EastAfghanistan – John Baily Armenia – Andy Nercessian Cities:Yerevan – Andy NercessianAzerbaijan – Fattah Khalig-Zade and Razia SultanovaBahrain – Kay Hardy CampbellEgypt – Karin van NieuwkerkCities:Cairo – Karin van NieuwkerkIran – Seyed Abdolhossein Mokhtabad AmreiIraq – Dave LaingIsrael – Motti Regev Cities:Jerusalem – Motti Regev Tel Aviv – Motti RegevJordan – Sami AsmarKuwait – Kay Hardy CampbellLebanon – Sami AsmarCities:Beirut – Sami AsmarOman – Dieter ChristensenPalestine – Dave LaingQatar – Kay Hardy CampbellSaudi Arabia – Kay Hardy CampbellSyria – Jonathan H. ShannonCities:Damascas – Jonathan H. ShannonHalab (Aleppo) – Jonathan H. Shannon

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.

• Introduction Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Maps AbbreviationsPart I: Africa1. African IslandsComoros – Werner GraebnerMadagascar – Janet Topp FargionMauritius – Guillaume Samson (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)Reunion – Guillaume Samson (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)The Seychelles – Guillaume Samson and Alain Courbis (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)2. Central AfricaCameroon – Marianne BernaCentral African Republic – Michelle KisliukChad – Mary PearceCongo (Rep.) – Graeme EwensDem. Rep. of Congo – Chris StapletonEquatorial Guinea – Chris StapletonGabon Graeme Ewens3. East AfricaBurundi – Rick SandersKenya – Caleb Okumu ChrispoCities: Mombasa – Caleb Okumu ChrispoNairobi – Caleb Okumu ChrispoRwanda – Rick SandersTanzania – Werner GraebnerRegions:Zanzibar – Werner GraebnerUganda – Sylvia Nannyonga-TamusuzaCities:Kampala – Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza4. Horn of Africa Djibouti – Andreas WetterEritrea – Rick SandersEthiopia – Rick SandersSomalia – Martin OrwinCities: Muqdisho (Mogadishu) – Martin OrwinSudan – Stephen Larrik5. North Africa Algeria – Dave LaingLibya – Philip Ciantar and Abdalla M. SebaiMorocco – Richard C. JankowskyRegions: Western Sahara – Richard C. JankowskyCities: Casablanca – Richard C. JankowskyTunisia – Ruth Davis and Richard C. Jankowsky6. Southern Africa Angola – Gerhard KubikBotswana – Angela ImpeyLesotho – David CoplanMalawi – Moya Aliya MalamusiMozambique – Joa-o Soeiro de CarvalhoNamibia – Minette MansSouth Africa – Sazi Dlamini with Christopher Ballantine and Nishlyn RamannaCities: Durban – Veit ErlmannJohannesburg – Rob AllinghamSoweto – Angela ImpeySwaziland – Jonathan CurrenZambia – Rick SandersZimbabwe – Chris Stapleton7. West Africa Benin – Nago Seck and Sylvie ClerfeuilleBurkina Faso – Oger Kabore (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)Cape Verde – JoAnne HoffmanCote d Ivoire – Chris StapletonThe Gambia – Graeme EwensGhana – E. John CollinsCities: Accra – E. John CollinsCape Coast – E. John CollinsKumasi E. John CollinsGuinea – Gunter GretzCities: Conakry – Gunter GretzGuinea-Bissau – Guus de KleinLiberia – E. John CollinsMali – Banning EyreMauritania – Chris StapletonNiger – Mahaman Garba (trans. Dave Laing)Nigeria – Chris StapletonRegions: Northern Nigeria – Chris StapletonSoutheastern Nigeria – Meki NzewiWestern Nigeria – Mosunmola Omibiyi-ObidikeCities: Benin City – Emeka Tony NwabuokuIbadan – Mosunmola Omibiyi-ObidikeLagos – Oluyemi OlaniyanOnitsha – Meki NzewiSao Tome and Principe – Dave LaingSenegal – Patricia TangCities: Dakar – Patricia TangSierra Leone – Christian D. J. HortonTogo – Nago Seck and Sylvie ClerfeuillePart II: Middle East8. Middle EastAfghanistan – John Baily Armenia – Andy Nercessian Cities:Yerevan – Andy NercessianAzerbaijan – Fattah Khalig-Zade and Razia SultanovaBahrain – Kay Hardy CampbellEgypt – Karin van NieuwkerkCities:Cairo – Karin van NieuwkerkIran – Seyed Abdolhossein Mokhtabad AmreiIraq – Dave LaingIsrael – Motti Regev Cities:Jerusalem – Motti Regev Tel Aviv – Motti RegevJordan – Sami AsmarKuwait – Kay Hardy CampbellLebanon – Sami AsmarCities:Beirut – Sami AsmarOman – Dieter ChristensenPalestine – Dave LaingQatar – Kay Hardy CampbellSaudi Arabia – Kay Hardy CampbellSyria – Jonathan H. ShannonCities:Damascas – Jonathan H. ShannonHalab (Aleppo) – Jonathan H. Shannon

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.

• Introduction Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Maps AbbreviationsPart I: Africa1. African IslandsComoros – Werner GraebnerMadagascar – Janet Topp FargionMauritius – Guillaume Samson (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)Reunion – Guillaume Samson (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)The Seychelles – Guillaume Samson and Alain Courbis (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)2. Central AfricaCameroon – Marianne BernaCentral African Republic – Michelle KisliukChad – Mary PearceCongo (Rep.) – Graeme EwensDem. Rep. of Congo – Chris StapletonEquatorial Guinea – Chris StapletonGabon Graeme Ewens3. East AfricaBurundi – Rick SandersKenya – Caleb Okumu ChrispoCities: Mombasa – Caleb Okumu ChrispoNairobi – Caleb Okumu ChrispoRwanda – Rick SandersTanzania – Werner GraebnerRegions:Zanzibar – Werner GraebnerUganda – Sylvia Nannyonga-TamusuzaCities:Kampala – Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza4. Horn of Africa Djibouti – Andreas WetterEritrea – Rick SandersEthiopia – Rick SandersSomalia – Martin OrwinCities: Muqdisho (Mogadishu) – Martin OrwinSudan – Stephen Larrik5. North Africa Algeria – Dave LaingLibya – Philip Ciantar and Abdalla M. SebaiMorocco – Richard C. JankowskyRegions: Western Sahara – Richard C. JankowskyCities: Casablanca – Richard C. JankowskyTunisia – Ruth Davis and Richard C. Jankowsky6. Southern Africa Angola – Gerhard KubikBotswana – Angela ImpeyLesotho – David CoplanMalawi – Moya Aliya MalamusiMozambique – Joa-o Soeiro de CarvalhoNamibia – Minette MansSouth Africa – Sazi Dlamini with Christopher Ballantine and Nishlyn RamannaCities: Durban – Veit ErlmannJohannesburg – Rob AllinghamSoweto – Angela ImpeySwaziland – Jonathan CurrenZambia – Rick SandersZimbabwe – Chris Stapleton7. West Africa Benin – Nago Seck and Sylvie ClerfeuilleBurkina Faso – Oger Kabore (Trans. Sinclair Robinson)Cape Verde – JoAnne HoffmanCote d Ivoire – Chris StapletonThe Gambia – Graeme EwensGhana – E. John CollinsCities: Accra – E. John CollinsCape Coast – E. John CollinsKumasi E. John CollinsGuinea – Gunter GretzCities: Conakry – Gunter GretzGuinea-Bissau – Guus de KleinLiberia – E. John CollinsMali – Banning EyreMauritania – Chris StapletonNiger – Mahaman Garba (trans. Dave Laing)Nigeria – Chris StapletonRegions: Northern Nigeria – Chris StapletonSoutheastern Nigeria – Meki NzewiWestern Nigeria – Mosunmola Omibiyi-ObidikeCities: Benin City – Emeka Tony NwabuokuIbadan – Mosunmola Omibiyi-ObidikeLagos – Oluyemi OlaniyanOnitsha – Meki NzewiSao Tome and Principe – Dave LaingSenegal – Patricia TangCities: Dakar – Patricia TangSierra Leone – Christian D. J. HortonTogo – Nago Seck and Sylvie ClerfeuillePart II: Middle East8. Middle EastAfghanistan – John Baily Armenia – Andy Nercessian Cities:Yerevan – Andy NercessianAzerbaijan – Fattah Khalig-Zade and Razia SultanovaBahrain – Kay Hardy CampbellEgypt – Karin van NieuwkerkCities:Cairo – Karin van NieuwkerkIran – Seyed Abdolhossein Mokhtabad AmreiIraq – Dave LaingIsrael – Motti Regev Cities:Jerusalem – Motti Regev Tel Aviv – Motti RegevJordan – Sami AsmarKuwait – Kay Hardy CampbellLebanon – Sami AsmarCities:Beirut – Sami AsmarOman – Dieter ChristensenPalestine – Dave LaingQatar – Kay Hardy CampbellSaudi Arabia – Kay Hardy CampbellSyria – Jonathan H. ShannonCities:Damascas – Jonathan H. ShannonHalab (Aleppo) – Jonathan H. Shannon