The African lute, called the ngoni, xalam, or kora depending on the region and culture, has a rich history dating back ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the American musical mainstream, creating popular new American music genres ...

(250126) -- HARARE, Jan. 26, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Virimai Nhedega shows a Mbira in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Jan. 20, 2025.

She is also a teacher at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The 34-year-old was born into a family of folk suona players in eastern China’s Shandong province. Her father is the 7th-generation ...

Their music is described as a genre-bending journey through a unique combination of jazz, house, funk and hip-hop. Hear them ...

[1] For most people, gourds are for eating, not for making music. In Chinese music, gourds fall into one of the eight categories of instruments ... generic scenes from ancient China, while others ...

Its emperor Mansa Musa was placed on medieval European maps of Africa with description: "The king is the richest and most noble because his country abounds in gold." Under him, the empire reached its ...

Following the lofty flights of 2021 album Kvitravn (White Raven), Wardruna are returning to the heart of winter with new album, Birna (She-Bear). Central to Wardruna’s sound is Einar Selvik’s ...

The gala featured a fusion of music, opera, dance and martial arts, offering audiences a mesmerizing feast for the senses.

The “gap-toothed girl wrapped in nothing more than a quantity of dirty carpet” would soon rise from her humble beginnings, to become the first African-American poet. One with a penchant for the ...