Act III of America 250: Our Stage, Our Stories celebrates musicals that have told the Black experience through music, song ...

The vibrant sounds of India and Africa converge in a celebration of cultural unity. The flagship concert, ‘One World, One ...

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 ...

Cuban music is a combination of Spanish décima poetry and African music and rhythms, but we know that the driving forces in Cuban music are the African polyrhythms, not the poetry. Some might say that ...

Somi is a jazz singer whose music fuses African and African-American musical traditions. She talks with Farai Chideya about her twinned roots in Rwandan, Uganda and Champaign, Ill. CHIDEYA: This is ...

The 1960s is a significant era in Abdullah Ibrahim’s story. It’s a time when the South African master’s international career as a jazz pianist was gradually established and he laid the foundations for ...

At 2 p.m. Feb. 3, I met John Fleming, his sister, and Ruby Miller, at the American Museum of Science and Energy. It was my privilege to provide a tour to acquaint our speaker for the evening with ...

Following a concert at Ghana’s biggest stadium in Tema on 26 December 2021, Ghanian dancehall musician Shattawale boasted about how his tickets sold out, a feat he said he managed without the support ...