African artists are taking the global music scene by storm, thanks to their unique fusion of traditional sounds with ...

Nkonzo ZA talks about his growing influence in the Afrosoul and Ethno-world music space, and his debut album ‘Ubizo EP.’ ...

African music, with its distinctive emphasis on polyrhythm and beats flowing from percussive instruments, was long treated as subordinate in the international music arena. Music from the continent ...

Jane E. Goodman received funding for this project from the Fulbright Institute for International Education, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Social Science Research Council ...

UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World records, Ralph Rinzler Folklikfe Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be ...

The 2024 Grammy awards will see the introduction of a new category: "best African music performance." When the category was announced last year, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. stated that it would be ...

If you walked by Mulberry Arts Studios in the past couple of weeks, there's a chance you heard the sound of drums. Not just any drums — traditional African drums, called djembe, that are so ...

Praised by folk legend Joan Baez as “the best young Chilean songwriter of his generation,” Nano Stern will perform for one night only on Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish.

From addressing the damaging influence of advertising, to using traditional songs to raise awareness, several projects conducted by academics at universities across Africa, funded by the Bristol Hub ...