Native America Dance and Music videos

old footage from the end of the 19thc, with modern music overlaid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQGW5a0q51w

festival dance, fairly recent (?); imbalanced sound quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWaihSU5WD0

Ewe music - various

very brief village dance scene:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=39IY8xVh-7w&NR=1
ditto, frustratingly brief:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=39IY8xVh-7w&NR=1
from a documentary about Ghana:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=gCtQFeyiwbE
some western students have a try:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZKdTkQ0Ag
some western students learning dance (a little better than the last one):
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=2DasrI3Leu0
a "cultural performance troupe" trio:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=MYIQ32916AA

Ewe Music - Agbekor
a demonstration of the basics:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=cYE7YZdcX8s
a "performance troupe" version:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JWyacBDk5zk

Caribbean links

A useful list of Caribbean music genres, by country, from Wikipedia, of all preposterous places: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Caribbean_music_genres

Chinese music and drama

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xYWiQ_RnLWE Beijing Opera scene
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3EiiUnk1gac&mode=related&search= Yue Cantonese opera

African Music

Dogon people:
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7840 - text overview

http://youtube.com/watch?v=N0Sy0gKvAko - Sigi Ritual dance
http://youtube.com/watch?v=26qaQEgA-1E - dance (short excerpt)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L-ERp8Nz4e4&mode=related&search= Funeral dance
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gCUD4XZvJW4 - dance in town square (from a local tv documentary)

Babongo Pygmy people:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gQ5wflDIejs (village panorama, mostly silent)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nwetczFOCIE (musical instruments demo)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UdLhIgpJCRA (another instrument demo)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ydhC8qT_sT8 (animal imitations & vocal sounds)

Xhosa (& related):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RpF8ChX4iB8 (girls' dance, Capetown; short excerpt)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=B91cE_vqx1c children singing in a classroom, short excerpt
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oIc-_g9WtkI&mode=related&search= drummers in a Capetown market, presumably Xhosa
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8tmnosIwy-I&mode=related&search= (Transkei region documentary; much of the text is in [trivial] German, but the doc is very helpful)

European Folk Music

Albania:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EXtx3eFQh8&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaT42e7GrDc&mode=related&search=
(just two of many; see the links to the right of these, all marked "Muzika Folklorike")

Bulgaria:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzRb01DgdHg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spp-JfDpwcg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxK0CuG1RXg (includes dance)

Romania:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8S8-xCyHfA Borod Village Folk Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yidnIzab3aU Professional/performing folk ensemble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krYQym1VwJk&NR=1 folklore performed in a tavern
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krYQym1VwJk&NR=1 blended with American performance folk-pop music

Turkish Music

Whirling Dervishes
1. "concert" performances
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJIofU-0jC0
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3yq7og5Xbk&mode=related&search=
2. "authentic" performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2AI8r4q8V8&mode=related&search=
3. informative website:
- http://www.whirlingdervish.org/turn.htm

Sufi Music:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdE217ei6mY&mode=related&search=