Aleme Eshete. Songs of the Ethiopian Revolution / Chansons de La Revolution Ethiopienne. Addis Ababa: Ministry of Culture, 1979.
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Bliese, Loren F. “Afar Songs”, Northeast African Studies 4, no. 3 (1982-82): 51-76. [Most of the texts recorded in 1965; JSTOR (subscription barrier)]
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Falceto, Francis. Abyssinie Swing: A Pictorial History of Modern Ethiopian Music, transl. by K.L. Albrecht. Addis Ababa: Shama Books, 2001.
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Gabbert, Echi Christina. “Narrated Identities or the Said and the Sung: Praise and Condemnation of Self and Others in Arbore Song Poetics,” Annales d’Éthiopie 23 (2008): 259-80. [Online version]
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Jorga Mesfin. Introduction to Ethio-Jazz [working title of a book project (YouTube)]
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Perner, Conradin. The Anyuak – Living on Earth in the Sky; vol. 4: A Personal Life. Basel: Schwabe, 2011. [Contains a CD with 41 live music recordings made in South Sudan from 1976 to 1979]
Qashu, Leila. “The Arsi Oromo Society Viewed through its Wedding Music,” in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, vol. 1 or 2 ??, ed. S. Ege et al., p. 272-286. Trondheim, 2009. [Online version]
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Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. Music, Ritual, and Falasha History. 2nd edition. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1989. [1st edition: 1986] [Online version; the Fal. are now known as Beta Israel or “Ethiopian Jews”]
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Timkehet Teffera. Timeless Wedding Customs and Music from The Ethiopian Highland. Berlin [independently publ.] 2023. [Amazon.com]
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—. “Religious Praise Poetry and Musical Rhetoric: The Ethiopian Mänzuma,” in Maqām Traditions between Theory and Contemporary Music Making, eds. J. Elsner, G. Jähnichen and C. Güray, p. 301-324. Istanbul: Pan Publishing, 2016. [Online version]
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Woube Kassaye. Analysis of Culture for Planning Curriculum: The Case of Songs Produced in the Three Main Languages of Ethiopia (Amharic, Oromigna and Tigrigna) (University of Joensuu Publications in Education, 76). Joensuu (Finland): University of Joensuu, 2002.
Xajjituu Tegegn, ed. Suunsuma (War Songs) [by] Nageessoo Guba’a, Geerrarsa (Songs of a Hero) [by] Fungulaa Karbammoo. Addis Ababa [no publisher identified], 1994.