• Our own RootsWorld magazine.
• Secret Museum of the Air is the brain-child of "Citizen Kafka" and "Major" Pat Conte, avid collectors of rare old records from around the world. Listen to classic 78 RPM recordings of turn-of-the-century klezmer, field tapes of African singers, old blues in the American south and a whole world of music from way before "world music" was born.
• Raices Cubanas is our Cuban roots section
• The Encyclopedia Of African Music
  An in depth, non-commercial compendium of information on African music and artists
• World Music Network
  While we usually don't recommend commercial sites here, this one is an exception, not only because of the great work this label does to bring out exciting music, but because the site itself is full of great information and lots of music clips.
• The World's Global Hit archive features the best of this public radio program's music segments for the last year
• AfroPop.org is the official home site for the global music radio program
• EthnoBass is a collective of world music enthusiasts from around the globe building a community-written compendium of musical information.
• The American Gamelan Institute supports, publishes and records gamelan music of all kinds, traditional and contemporary, from around the world. The web site is an excellent reference point for Indonesian music, and features a "Gongcast" of various gamelan recordings.
• The World Music Charts Europe
  What's on the air in European radio?
• World Music Institute, New York's premier presenter of world music and dance, in concert and on tour

Good shopping:

• cdRoots: our small catalog of unusual music from around the world
• Calbash Music: the gloabal music download source
• Farside Music, now in the UK, offers an excellent selection of Asian pop, folk and avant garde music

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