Useful Links

Afro-Caribbean links
Latin American Links
Spanish Links
Portuguese Links

Afro-Caribbean 

• AfroCubaWeb. This includes resources on race and identity as well as music.
• Afromix. Links for African and Afro-Caribbean music.

• Planet Salsa News, interviews, articles and previews

• Anapapaya Latin and Caribbean jazz including reviews, interviews and articles

• Fundación nacional para la cultura popular (Puerto Rico)

• Fundación Musicalia Foundation for the study of popular Latin music based in Puerto Rico

Latin America

• Latin American branch of IASPM (includes online publication of conference proceedings)
• LANIC at the University of Texas. This includes links to general sites on Latin America, the Andes and the Caribbean, as well as country-specific links for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti and the U.S.A. (the New York Barrio and TexMex), plus links to the websites of individual stars like Rubén Baldes and Willie Colón.

• Mundo Latino Links to artists pages, music websites, radio, TV, distributors and MP3/midi sites

• Cultural Resources: Music. This cultural resources page includes links to the websites for individual singers such as Juan Luis Guerra, Víctor Jara and Silvio Rodríguez, as well as flamenco and tuna from Spain, corridos from Mexico and Cuban music.

• Latin American Music Center (Indiana University School of Music) Extensive online resources

• Patria Grande. This site has several musical links that can be reached through links to countries and the excellent search engine provided.

• MTV latino

• Cancioneros Lyrics and discography of trovadores

• Rock Argentino Argentine rock site including encyclopedia, search engine, audio clips and tabs

• El Portal del Tango Tango site including biographies, discographies, cinema , dance, poetry, dictionary and lyrics

• Buenos Aires Tango Includes articles, links, mp3s

• Llanera site includes lyrics, biographies and audio clips

• Paraguayan music (extensive audio clips)

• Andean dance and song

• The Music of Brazil. Lots of useful links as well as information on Edson Gomes, Olodum, Carlinhos Brown and Gilberto Gil

• Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popular Brasileira

• The Brasilian Sound. Links by artists and subject as well as links on MPB and to Afro-Brazilian sites
• Alta Fidelidade. Brazilian music.
• Brazilian Music Search. Search engine for Brazilian music sites
• Brazzil. On-line magazine
• Nordesteweb. Music from the North East of Brazil

• Brazilian Muse Brasilian scene in New York.

• Magazine of the Brazilian Ministry for Exterior Relations on música popular brasileira

• Online encyclopaedia of Chilean Music Covers last 80 or so years. More than 600 biographies of musicians, groups, composers complete with discographies.

•  Instituto Moreira Salles Access to the IMS musical collections, including those of the critic José Ramos Tinhorão

•  Cliquemusic Brazilian singers, groups and musical genres

•  Ricardo Schott’s blog has an almost daily discographic review (in Portuguese):

•  Brazilian Music Treasure Hunt blog (in Portuguese) with daily reviews/news:

•  Idelber Avelar’s blog (in Portuguese), weekly discographic reviews

• Florida International University Díaz Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection (Approx. 100,000 items)

• Timba  the latest salsa trend to emerge from Cuba

• Jan Fairley's personal web-pages (bibliography and information about this prolific scholar)

• Juan Pablo González's personal web-pages (bibliography, discography and information about one of Latin America's leading popular musicologists)

Spain

• Iberian and Latin American Music Online (includes a mailing list) incorporating an international inventory of villancico texts.
• La Factoria del ritmo Spanish pop music fanzine (good on alternative scene)
• El Mundo del Flamenco A site run by the Junta de Andalucía. Plenty on Flamenco and some downloadable snippets of old recordings
• Centro Andaluz del Flamenco
• Flamenco-world Flamenco and flamenco-jazz
• andalucia.com Flamenco and sevillanas
• Personal webpage of Héctor Fouce, music correspondent for webzine LaNetro.com with links to rock pages and articles on subcultures and la movida

• Complete site on Spanish music scene

• Complete professional guide to Spanish music scene

• Spanish electronica site

• Sonar Advanced music and multimedia art

• Spanish charts Includes audio and video clips

Portugal

• At-tamur.com A site dedicated to traditional lusophone musics.
• 123som.com A site with all manner of lusophone and non-lusophone musics - traditonal to pop. Large site but avoidis the usual overemphasis on the Anglo-Saxon 'mainstream'.
• Mp 2000 Portuguese music on the net. Extensive links page.