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ANT 215 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MUSIC
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Dr. Cate Cameron
ccameron@cedarcrest.edu
Curtis Hall 236
(610) 606 - 4666 x3503
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(1)  Web site of William and Gayle Cook Music Library  at Indiana University.  It has 191 links to other sites of musical instruments and is in alphabetical order. Many of the links are for western musical instruments, but there are some non-western, as well. 
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/instr.html 

(2) Lark in the Morning. World Music instruments, books, records, and videos. 
http://www.larkinam.com/ 

(3)   This site has links to all the major regions of the world and includes information on musical instruments. 
http://www.wcpworld.com/native/roots.htm  

(4)  Site on World Fusion Music with a link to instruments. 
http://www.ancient-future.com/links/index.html  

(5)   World Fusion Music site with information on selected world music instrument. 
http://www.ancient-future.com/links/index.html 

(6) This site contains information on the bodhran, a traditional Irish frame drum. Includes section on pictures and history. 
http://www.ceolas.org/instruments/bodhran/  

(7)   Barry Hall's web page for the unique instruments he makes from clay. 
http://www.ninestones.com/burntearth.shtml 

(8)   A very fine site on all aspects of the mbira or thumb piano of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. 
http://www.tiac.net/users/smurungu/mbiraindex.html 

(9)  Web site for the Japanese flute called the shakuhachi. 
http://www.pacific.net/~shakuhachi/  

(10)  World Music Links. This site has many links to world musical cultures, but it has not been updated since 1996, so some of the links no longer work. 
http://www.twics.com/~robbs/links.html  

(11) Site on the music of Cape Verde (Afro-Portuguese). 
http://www.umassd.edu/SpecialPrograms/caboverde/cvmusic.html  

(12)  This company sells drums. The site is useful because it provides pictures of different styles of African drums. 
http://www.everyonesdrumming.com/index.html  

(13) Folk, bluegrass, and celtic music and instruments. This site has 382 links and is growing. 
http://www.xmission.com/~iama/newlinks.html  

(14) Reports on a Neanderthal flute that dates to about 75,000 years ago. Illustrates a very scientifically dubious site. 
http://www.webster.sk.ca/greenwich/fl-compl.htm 


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