The evolution of acoustic guitar music in Africa is a story of trailblazers who fused traditional rhythms with innovative ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

The role of African art music in classical music In his keynote talk, musicologist Kofi Agawu from the City University of New York (CUNY) spoke about African art music and its role in classical music.

Classical music has been his escape for three years ... Under apartheid, the system of racial segregation in South Africa that lasted until the 1990s, there were very few opportunities for ...

And yet, as Alberga explains in her recent BBC Radio 3 documentary A History of Black Classical ... African American gay man. Although he died homeless and all but forgotten in 1990, his music ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

But anything that might bring new listeners to classical music has to be a good thing ... then a symphonic movement by ...