The passing of Mustafa Zaman Abbasi marks the end of an era in Bangla folk music. More than a singer, scholar, or ...

Like many of you, I was taken aback by the shameful, unwarranted putdowns of Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Himanshi Narwal, one, ...

The eighteen demon dances belonging to the tradition of low country dancing constitute a folk religion among those who ...

As Imam Plemon El-Amin stood on stage at Morehouse College in front of hundreds of people, donning graduation regalia his ...

In the mid-1990s, Peter Mayer, a former Jesuit novitiate turned singer-songwriter, quit his job as a music director at St.

From protest songs to academic texts, a growing number of cases spotlight the delicate—and often dangerous—tightrope between ...

In my 22 years as a Harvard professor, I have not been afraid to bite the hand that feeds me. So I’m hardly an apologist when ...

Festival co-founder Shawn Stern spoke with The Times about the origins of the festival and why the culture and spirit of punk ...

The experimental folk musician and a music historian wander around SoHo in search of long-lost friends and neighbors.

Pakistan’s first textiles museum, which opened in Karachi in December, has set out to preserve the material remnants of that ...

Cannes: Based on a true story, Ghaywan’s film about the friendship between a Dalit man and a Muslim man is produced by Karan ...