MASERU, Lesotho — Puseletso Seema is musical royalty in the tiny African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, where she's known as "the Queen of Famo" -– a popular genre of pastoral accordion music beloved by ...

Broadcaster Pulane Macheli was mediating for peace between warring Famo music groups when she was killed. This statement was originally published on misa.org on 26 July 2024. Pulane Macheli, a Lesotho ...

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Magsamen is the Founder and Director of the International Arts + Mind Lab Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins University. She is the co-author with Ivy Ross of Your Brain on Art: How ...

Once upon a time, I would have made a list of the best albums of 2022 – that was when I bought and listened to albums. I still do, but on streaming services and it’s not the same – somehow when ...

Ivorian rapper Didi B’s ‘En Haut’ blends trap, coupé-décalé, and call-and-response. With tempered vocals from JR, Didi B reels off braggadocio lyrics targeting his perceived foes. ‘En Haut’ employs ...

As physical media becomes more of a luxury than a necessity for music fans, a beautifully packaged, lovingly remastered and thoughtfully enhanced reissue becomes all the more special. Labels seem to ...

Afropop — a catch-all term casting a wide net over the diverse musical approaches originating and dominating from Africa — has long been a center of the Black diasporic experience, from which so much ...

In 2022, the destruction of gender that grandpas all over the world were worried about finally made it to the top of the pop charts. Kind of. Sam Smith and Kim Petras’s “Unholy” reached number one on ...

I always love a really huge-feeling year, with new albums from some pop music titans who lived up to however long it took to hear new music from them. Beyoncé’s latest was everything I hoped for: ...

I’ve never been particularly strategic about listening to new music; I tend to pursue it in arbitrary bursts or to let it float into my life in whichever way it can. I’m not even sure I could impose ...