The influence of African music is widespread. Elements can be heard in blues, gospel, jazz and Latin American music due to the historic movement of African slaves to the Americas. Millions of ...

Ayra Starr has become the first woman to win best African music act at the Mobo Awards in 16 years. The singer also won best international music act, at the ceremony held in Newcastle. The awards ...

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

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 ...

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 ...