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• Arnold, Stephen H. "The Choral Literature of Sir O. E. Elonge, Anglophone Cameroonian." Pacific Quarterly Moana 7, no. 2 (1982): pp. 71-82.
• Awa, Magdalene Shiri Halle, et al. The Cameroon National Anthem: A Historical, Socio-Political, Literary and Religious Commentary. Bamenda, Cameroon: Magdalene Shiri Halle Awa, 2013.
• Awondo, Patrick. "Devenir rappeur engagé": l’émergence controversée du rap dans l’espace public camerounais." Politique africaine 141 (2016/1): pp. 123-145.
• Brunner, Anja. "Popular Music and the Young Postcolonial State of Cameroon, 1960-1980." Popular Music and Society 40, no. 1 (2017): pp. 37-48.
• Colombel, Véronique de. "Instruments de musique et relations interethniques dans les monts du Mandara," in Relations interethniques et culture materielle dans le bassin du lac Tchad: Actes du IIIème Colloque MEGA-TCHAD, Paris, ORSTOM, 11-12 septembre 1986 edited by Daniel Barreteau and Henry Tourneaux, pp. 183-211. Paris: Editions de l'ORSTOM, 1990.
• Dibango, Manu. “Cameroon: Three Kilos of Coffee (excerpt),” in African Lives: An Anthology of Memoirs and Autobiographies edited by Geoff Wisner. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013.
• Dibango, Manu and Danielle Rouard. Three kilos of coffee: an autobiography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994
• Erlmann, Veit. "Daacol: Preisgesänge der Fulbe des Diamaré vorgetragen von 'Alhaji Buuba Gerdele." Anthropos (Sankt Augustin) 77, no. 5-6 (1982): pp. 775-830.
• Erlmann, Veit. "Marginal Men, Strangers and Wayfarers: Professional Musicians and Change Among the Fulani of Diamaré (North Cameroon)." Ethnogmusicology (New York) 27, no. 3 (May 1983): pp. 187-225.
• Erlmann, Veit. "Model, Variation and Performance. Ful'be Praise-Song in Northern Cameroon." Yearbook for Traditional Music 17 (1985): pp. 88-112.
• Erlmann, Veit. "Modèle, variation et exécution: chants de louanges peuls (Cameroun)." Ethnomusicologie 4 (1987): pp. 85-93.
• Erlmann, Veit. "Notes on Musical Instruments among the Fulani of Diamare (North Cameroon)." African Music 6, no. 3 (1983): pp. 16-41.
• Eguchi, Paul Kazuhisa. "Mbum circumcision songs." Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka) 1, no. 2 (1976): pp. 334-343.
• Eyoum, G. Oyé! Douala: n.p., n.d.
• Fritz, Thomas, et. al. "Basic Emotions in Music Universally Recognized." Current Biology 19, no. 7 (2009): pp. 573–576.
• Fumtim, Joseph and Anne Cillon Perri. Zanzibar Epémé Théodore et les Têtes brûlées: la passion bikutsi. Yaoundé: Éditions Ifrikiya, 2013.
• Gansemans, Jos. "Quelques considérations sur le xylophone mendzang des Ewondo (Cameroun)." Africa-Tervuren (Tervuren) 17, no. 3 (1971): pp. 87-88.
• Haafkens, J. Chants musulmans en peul: textes de l’héritage religieux de la communauté musulmane de Maroua (Cameroun): Leiden: Brill, 1983.[Review by H. J. Fisher, "Singing the Lord's Songs in a Strange Land," Journal of African History 25, no. 2 (1984): pp. 213-219.]
• Ignatowski, Clare A. Journey of song: public life and morality in Cameroon. African expressive cultures. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. [Reviewed by Alec Pongweni in American Ethnologist 35, no. 4 (2008): pp. 4027-4031.]
• Impey, Angela. "Journey of Song: Public Life and Morality in Cameroon." Ethnomusicology 55, no. 1 (2011): pp. 140-143.
• Kam Kah, Henry. "Music, Gender and History among the Laimbwe Urchin Group of Bu, Cameroon." TRAMES: A Journal Of The Humanities & Social Sciences 20, no. 2 (2016): pp. 177-200.
  
• Knöpfli, Hans. Crafts and technologies: some traditional craftsmen of the Western Grasslands of Cameroon - vol. 4. Living in style: handicrafts, music and the fabric of social life. Basel: Basel Mission, 2002. [Reviewed by Raymond Silverman in Material Religion 2, no. 2 (2006): pp. 247-248.]
• Labatut, Roger. Chants de vie et de beaute recueillis chez des Peuls nomades du Nord-Cameroun. 2nd Ed. POF études. Paris: Publications orientalistes de France, 1978.
• Mbeng, André. La pratique de l’opéra en Afrique. Paris: Harmattan, 2010.
• Mbeng, André. Recueil de chansons épiques du peuple bassa du Cameroun: les murmures de l’arc-en-ciel. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007.
• Merriam, A. P. “Bafia Kamoeroen; Yaka-Muziek: African music recordings: record review.” African music 5, no. 3 (Sep 1973): pp. 103-104.
• Miller, Ivor. "Bongó Itá: Leopard Society Music and Language in West Africa, Western Cuba, and New York City," in Rewriting the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean : beyond disciplinary and national boundaries edited by Robert Lee Adams Jr., pp. 81-99. London: Routledge, 2013.
• Miller, Ivor. "Bongó Itá: Leopard Society Music and Language in West Africa, Western Cuba, and New York City." African and Black diaspora: an international journal 5, no. 1 (January 2012): pp. 85-103.
• Moussa, Alioum and Yvan Amatagana. Instruments de musique traditionnelle du Cameroun/Traditional music instruments of Cameroon. Yaoundé: MINCULT, 2008.
• Neeley, Paul L. "Discourse Peak and Poetic Closure in the Final Stanza of a Talking Drum Performance." Journal of West African Languages 24, no. 1 (1994): pp. 108-14.
• Neeley, Paul L. People of the drum of God, Come!: Calling the Christians in Cameroon. M.A., University of Texas at Arlington, 1991.
• Neeley, Paul L. People of the drum of God, Come!. Publications in Ethnography 35. Dallas: SIL International, 1999.
• Noah, Jean Maurice. Le makossa: une musique africaine moderne. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010.
• Nug Bissohong, Thomas Théophile. L’hymne national du Cameroun: un poème-chant à décolonialiser et à réécrire: relectures critiques et perspectives. Yaoundé: Éditions CLÉ, 2010.
• Nyamnjoh, Francis B. and Jude Fokwang. "Entertaining Repression: Music and Politics in Post-Colonial Cameroon." Africana Studia 13 (Dec. 2009): 179-181.
• Ozah, Marie Agatha. "Moninkim: A Symbiotic Performance of Ritual, Music, and Dance by the Ejagham People of Nigeria and Cameroon." Ethnomusicology 59, no. 3 (2015): pp. 421-449.
• Ritzenthaler, Robert Eugene and Pat Ritzenthaler. Music of the Cameroons. Ethnic Folkways library, Smithsonian Folkways Archival. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2007. [Music recording, 0riginally issued 1961.]
• Schaeffner, André. "Notes sur la musique des populations du Cameroun septentrional." Minotaure 2 (numéro spécial) Mission Dakar-Djibouti: 1931-1933 (June 1933): pp. 65-70.
• Schaeffner, André. "Sur deux instruments de musique des Bata (Nord Cameroun)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 13 (1943): pp. 123-152.
• Scheiner, Matt. "Baka Live." Global Rhythm 16, no. 10 (2007): p. 43.
• Schrag, Brian. How Bamiléké Music-Makers Create Culture in Cameroon. Ph.D., UCLA, 2005.
• Sone, Enongene Mirabeau and Ngade Ivo Ntiege Mesumbe. "Moralising Female Identity in Cameroon in the 1990s: Female Prostitution and the Song 'You Gu Cry'." Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa 11, no. 2 (2014): pp. 103-115.
• Thornburg, John D. "Summoned to Cameroon by e-mail." Hymn: A Journal Of Congregational Song 61, no. 2 (2010): pp. 7-19.
• Vakunta, Peter W. The Life and Times of a Cameroonian Icon: Tribute to Lapiro de Mbanga Ngata Man. Mankon, Cameroon: Langaa Research and Publishing CIG, 2014.
• Yené, Jean Jacques. La chanson camerounaise: sociologie actuelle et mécanismes de contrôle de l’opinion. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015.