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 ...

African instruments are rich and unique in their sounds. With such uniqueness in sound, they have influenced music from other parts of the world. Here are 7 musical instruments whose origin dates ...

Described as a cross between a harp, a lute, and a guitar, the kora is part of a musical ... when the instrument, traditionally played in the steadily warm weather of Africa, experiences cold ...

Many origin stories of musical instruments in Africa refer to a jinn (genie) first bringing it out. So it is with the kora. This person before you, he was born with the kora. The seventh ...

Accompanying them were the deep, resonant tones of African drums, the rhythmic shake of ensaasi (traditional shakers), and ...

LEWISBURG — Okaidja Afroso is heading back to the Weis Center on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. He will present a new project called “Jaku Mumor” that combines African oral tradition, percussion ...

Explore musical instruments in the Anacostia Community Museum's collection ... His groundbreaking research told stories of sounds and songs transported from Africa to the Americas. Dance to drums of ...

as researchers from the University of Zurich have shown based on musical instruments, specialized vocabulary and genetic information. Central Africa has been occupied by hunter–gatherer ...