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

Interview - A conversation with Angélique Kidjo on the power of music, Africa's future, and breaking boundaries.

I play traditional music, and I don't know what the blues is." African Americans would later mix and morph these West African sounds into jazz, rock & roll, soul, funk, and hip-hop. Since djelis ...

jazz and Latin American music due to the historic movement of African slaves to the Americas. Millions of people were taken from Africa to America and the West Indies, especially during the period ...

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 ...

Serving as an ensemble in the Vernacular Music Center, the East African Quartet shares their music and culture to knit ...

Tiitambe West African Dance Ensemble is coming to Family of Christ Lutheran Church in Chanhassen on Wednesday, April 3 at 6 p.m. to perform free for the public. The musicians celebrate music and ...

Highlighting Black talent is the central mission of the second annual We Black Folk Fest at Club Passim in Cambridge, a two-day festival in February honoring the West African griot tradition through ...