For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their conditions. Later, it ...

Join for an enlightening discussion and demonstration by Carlos Mateu, a percussion artist, dancer, and musicologist in revealing the African roots of popular Latin music. He will lead us through live ...

African Rhythms, the as-told-to autobiography of the NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston (composed by Randy Weston, arranged by Willard Jenkins; Duke University Press) is set for October release to the ...

Growing up in segregated Richmond, Virginia, the first creative love of James Branch's life was chemistry. Which seems fitting enough given all the musical compounds he would later contrive. As a ...

It was telling of Omelika Kuumba’s spirit that on her birthday, her first after losing both parents within eight months of one another, she would give a concert in their honor. Near the end of her ...

Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West ...

Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she even visited Africa. Through a drum club at her college, Lehmann, who had no ...

(CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at ...

Grasonville Elementary School students explored traditional West African dance and drumming Jan. 14 during a performance and workshop led by guest teaching artists through the Carole Cascio Fund.

In time, versions of these rhythms were attached to work songs, field hollers and street cries, many of which were accompanied by dance. The creators of these forms drew from an African cultural ...