An Anthology of African Music is a series of recordings of traditional music that was made for the International Music Council by the International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation (Berlin/Venice) and released on the Musicaphon label by Bärenreiter (Kassel/Basel/London). The series was directed by Paul Collaer

Paul Collaer

Paul Collaer was a Flemish Belgian musicologist, pianist, and conductor. He studied piano at the conservatory in Mechelen and also studied physics, receiving a doctorate from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He was a strong advocate of modern music and founded the Pro-Arte concerts in Brussels...

. It was part of the larger and longer enduring UNESCO Collection

UNESCO Collection

UNESCO Collection is a world music record label, under the aegis of UNESCO.The full title of the series was UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World....

 series.

Recordings

• Music of the Dan — BM 30 L 2301

Reissued as Rounder CD 5105. Review by Adam Greenberg on Allmusic, [].

• Music from Rwanda — BM 30 L 2302

Reissued as Rounder CD 5106. Review by Adam Greenberg on Allmusic, [].

• Ba-Benzélé Pygmies — BM 30 L 2303

Reissued as Rounder CD 5107. Review by Eugene Chadbourne on Allmusic, [].

The three albums above (Dan through Ba-Benzélé Pygmies) were reviewed by David Rycroft in Journal of the International Folk Music Council 19 (1967), pp. 164-166, .

• Ethiopia I - Music of the Ethiopian Coptic Church — BM 30 L 2304
• Ethiopia II - Music of the Cushitic Peoples of South-West Ethiopia — BM 30 L 2305

These two albums reviewed by Kurt Suttner in Ethnomusicology 14, #3 (September 1970), pp. 530-532, .

• Nigeria-Hausa Music I — BM 30 L 2306
• Nigeria-Hausa Music II — BM 30 L 2307
• Music of the Senufo — BM 30 L 2308
• Chad Kanem — BM 30 L 2309
• Musics of the Central African Republic — BM 30 L 2310

Reviewed by Alan P. Merriam in Ethnomusicology 15, #2 (May 1971), pp. 300-302, .

• Nigeria III: Igbo Music — BM 30 L 2311

Reviewed by Darius L. Thieme in Ethnomusicology 36, #1 (Winter 1992), pp. 137-140, .

• Sudan I - Music of the Blue Nile Province; The Gumuz Tribe — BM 30 SL 2312 (1986)

Reissued as Auvidis D 8072.

• Sudan II - Music of the Blue Nile Province; The Ingessana and Berta Tribes — BM 30 SL 2313 (1986)

Reissued as Auvidis D 8073.

The two albums above were reviewed by Cynthia Tse Kimberlin in Ethnomusicology 34, #2 (Spring-Summer 1990), pp. 349-352, .

• Ethiopia III - Three Chordophone Traditions — BM 30 SL 2314 (c. 1985)

Reissued as Auvidis D 8074. Reviewed by Ashenafi Kebede in Ethnomusicology 34, #1 (Winter 1990), pp. 196-198, .