A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition. By Giovanni Russonello Foday Musa Suso, a griot, ...

Over the last decade, Afrobeats has made significant inroads in the global music industry, from invitations to conquer the biggest stages in the world to cross-cultural collaborations with Western ...

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The performance is part of Sonoma County Office of Education’s effort to promote the historic and current contributions of different ethnic groups. Clapping and dancing to the beat of African ...

Toumani Diabaté, a Malian virtuoso of a 21-string instrument known as the kora, who brought a rich West African musical legacy to audiences around the world with genre-mixing collaborations ranging ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — From an electrifying ...

Covering three continents and four centuries, Bloomington Early Music Festival 2025 is devoted to early music of Black Africans and their descendants. Only during the past few decades have many of ...

It is not uncommon for jazz artists to borrow from world music to enliven their pieces—adding a dash of spice as it were. It is even rarer (with Latin jazz being an exception) for musicians to dive ...

Toubab Krewe’s music is like Elvis’ hair. In the ’40s and ’50s, some black people combed their hair back to give it a thinner, more “white” look. Because their hair was so thick, however, it often ...

The last time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo came to Atlanta, she grooved across the Fox Theatre stage encouraging the audience at Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday celebration to move to the ...

We're rolling out the 50 tracks that are the most foundational, influential and popular within Afrobeats. Over the last decade, Afrobeats has made significant inroads in the global music industry, ...