Striking out from Agadez, Niger, Etran de L’Aïr (henceforth, EDL) consist of three brothers and a cousin: bassist Abdoulaye ...

Alice Randall discussed Fisk University and Black women's important role in the foundational roots, profession of country ...

Bass player Anthony Tidd is the curator of this year’s jazz festival, which opens Wednesday, June 4, and runs through Sunday, ...

Over the last 30 years one of the very cool trends in the international music scene is the growing popularity of West African “desert blues”: music from the Sahel region that draws on some of the same ...

Afrobeat is a mix of music like jazz and funk with traditional African music ... A shekere is a percussion instrument that you play by shaking it. You move it up and down and side-to-side to ...

Music played a key role in African American religious life ... Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time as a musical play. Not surprisingly, the plantation songs of Stephen Foster often ...