http://author.voanews.com/english/africa/blog/index.cfm African music treasures is a Voice of America blog that allows you to discover rare African recordings from the VOA's unique African music library. Many of the recordings featured on the blog are unreleased recordings of traditional and contemporary music that were originally recorded for the VOA program MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA. en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:10:57 -0000 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:37:00 -0000 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mlavoie@voanews.com mlavoie@voanews.com http://author.voanews.com/english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=A854893F-0F3A-0BF2-3D9BACB11B43061D One of the qualities, I find, that is shared by many of the musics that most appeal to me is the ability to create and sustain juxtapositions between different, and often seemingly contradictory, moods or 'feelings'. The mysterious ways in which, for example, the best Brazilian Bossa Nova can simultaneously express contentment and melancholy, or in which Albert Ayler's music can be both ecstatic and reflective. Ghana's many highlife guitar-bands of the 1960s and 1970s seem to have mastered the... Ghana Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:37:00 -0000 /english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=A854893F-0F3A-0BF2-3D9BACB11B43061D http://author.voanews.com/english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=9DB13EEB-A11F-3F8E-627A8D53F7B9ABD5 One of the greatest joys of an intuitively organized-read disheveled-archive is the potential for surprise discoveries. Even after ten years of poking through our stacks of reels I still find interesting recordings I have never heard. Over the last month, whenever I could find a few minutes, I have gone down to the archive and pulled out tape after tape looking for a recording of a Dr. Nico interview. I still haven't found that interview, in fact I haven't yet been able to confirm that Dr. Ni... Ghana Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:16:00 -0000 /english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=9DB13EEB-A11F-3F8E-627A8D53F7B9ABD5