• La Cumbia: Síntesis Musical de la Nación Colombiana, Reseña Histórica y Coreográfica by Delia Zapata Olivella, 1962.

• Samba by Alma Guillermoprieto, 1991.

• Rhythms of Resistance: African Musical Heritage in Brazil by Peter Fryer, 2001.

• Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History: Volume 1, Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America, and Mexico, Ed. Malena Kuss, 2004.

• Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific by Heidi Carolyn Feldman, 2006.
  

• The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil by Chris McGowan, 2008.

• La cumbia cimarrona by Alfredo F. García, 2013.

• Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil by Marc A. Hertzman, April 2013.
  

• Cumbia!: Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre, Ed. by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste &  Pablo Vila, 2013.

• Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil by Marc A. Hertzman, 2013.

• When the Devil Knocks: The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama by Renée Alexander Craft, 2015. ︎ 

• Tabom Voices: A History of the Ghanaian Afro-Brazilian Community in their Own Words by Juan Diego Díaz, 2016.

• Africanness in Action: Essentialism and Musical Imaginations of Africa in Brazil by Juan Diego Díaz, 2021.
  

FILMS & SERIES

• Samba On Your Feet, dir. Eduardo Montes-Bradley, 52 mins, 2005. Available on Vimeo.

• The Candombe and its socio-cultural space: a community practice by UNESCO, 2009. 9 mins. Available on YouTube.

• Candombe in Uruguay: documentary with English subtitles, 2016. 24 mins. Available on YouTube.

• Afro-Mexicans: Dancing Their Way Back To Their Roots by AJ+, 2016. 2 mins. Available on YouTube.

• Tambom in Bahia by Nilton Pereira and Juan Diego Díaz, 2017. 52 mins.

• “Candombe and the Reterritorialization of Culture” by Abril Trigo, Callaloo, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Summer, 1993).

• "Ethnicity, modernity, and retention in the Garifuna punta" by Oliver N. Greene Jr., Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2002.

• UNESCO’s Listing for “Candombe and its socio-cultural space: a community practice,” 2009.

• “From Punta to Chumba: Garifuna Music and Dance in New Orleans” by Amy Serrano, Louisiana Division of the Arts, 2009. 

• “A Musical Journey Through Cumbia” by Amy Cunningham, Sounds and Colours, December 2011.

• “The Story Inside the Rhythm: Mapalé” by Nicholas Sea, Sounds and Colours, January 2012.

• “Listening with the Body: An Aesthetics of Spirit Possession Outside the Terreiro” by Juan Diego Díaz, Ethnomusicology, Vol. 60, No. 1., Winter 2016.

• “Experimentations with Timelines: A Strategy of Rhythmic Complication in Afro-Bahian Jazz” by Juan Diego Díaz, AAWM Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2017.

• “A Brief History of the Uruguayan Candombe” by George Mizen, Culture Trip, January 2017.

• “Between Repetition and Variation: A Musical Performance of Malícia in Capoeira”  by Juan Diego Díaz, Ethnomusicology Forum, Vol. 26, Issue 1, April 2017.

• UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Listing: “Ritual and festive expressions of the Congo culture,” 2018.

• “How this African beat spread through Latin America” (Cumbia) by Johnny Harris and Christina Thornell, Vox, December 2018.

• “The Musical Experience of Diasporas: The Return of a Ghanaian Tabom Master Drummer to Bahia” by Juan Diego Díaz, Latin American Music Review, Vol. 41, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2020.

• “Shakira Brought Afro-Colombian Dance to the Super Bowl” (Mapalé & champeta) by OkayAfrica, February 2020.

• “The Other Afro-Latino: Hidden Sounds from Ecuador, Bolivia and Uruguay” by Afropop Worldwide, 2009. 1h.

• “Samba Strikes Back” by Afropop Worldwide, June 2013. 1h.

• “Samba at the Dawn of Modern Brazil” by Afropop Worldwide, August 2016. 1h.

• “La Bamba: The Afro-Mexican Story” by Afropop Worldwide, March 2017. 1hr. ︎

• “Cumbia: the Danceable Musical Tradition that Defies Borders” in Marfa Public Radio, August 2017. 5 mins.

• “The Panama Beat” by Afropop Worldwide, May 2021. 59m.