How African instruments, rhythms, and innovators shaped the genre long before it became a cultural symbol of the American South. Long before country music became a billion-dollar cultural force, its ...

Breaking Boundaries with Rhythm, Melody, Culture, and Innovation. Globally celebrated figure and legendary musician, composer, instrumentalist, DJ, and producer Michael Prince Johnson has released his ...

The djembe drum dates back roughly between 400 and 800 years, created during the Malian Empire by the Mandé people across regions including Senegal, Mali, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast. Picture a goblet ...

The Black Banjo Reclamation Project aims to put banjos into the hands of everyday people. Paul Ruta Of all the melodic musical instruments in the world, perhaps none is more connected to the land it ...

The aesthetic dimensions of African musical instruments are not only visual, but aural and symbolic as well. As cultural objects, they can represent and reinforce political authority, social ...

A young South African musician is winning accolades for her fusion of tribal rhythms from around the world. Courtney Gibson blends Western instruments, like electric guitar, with traditional African ...

Excerpted from Chaper 1 of The Banjo: America’s African Instrument by Laurent Dubois, published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (footnotes omitted ...

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...

All instruments were recorded in Native Instruments’ studios in Berlin. West Africa features a sequencer that provides over 70 pre-programmed ensemble patterns with West-African grooves, complete with ...

The First Recording of Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" Chris Ware and Scott Yoo discuss the first recording of "The Entertainer." I mean, the thing about Scott, he's really bringing in different ...