Teachers can help the origins of jazz and hip-hop come alive for students with resources that highlight these influential ...

The djembe drum dates back roughly between 400 and 800 years, created during the Malian Empire by the Mandé people across regions including Senegal, Mali, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast. Picture a goblet ...

PROFESSORS Adeoluwa Ayokunle Okunade and Bode Omojola are illustrious Nigerian scholars who are powerfully advancing African music on the world stage.Okunade, a renowned Professor of Ethnomusicology ...

Nancy embodied the Biennale’s theme through her work as a space for sonic experimentation and liberation from traditional ...

In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present ...

Artist Edwin Sepúlveda, known as Don Rimx, is working to preserve Puerto Rican culture and Bomba music through a new Kissimmee mural.

The New York rapper went full-on traditional in a performance featuring a legendary merengue artist, folkloric dress, and lots of ...

I was strung out on Bach, and Beethoven was my thing. I dug jazz, I dug rock, anything with a swing” — or so goes ...

Bad Bunny becomes the first artist to win album of the year with a Spanish-language album as the Grammys feature standout ...

Ahead of the show ’A Night in Andalusia,’ we speak to Lila Borsali to delve into the rich history of Al-Andalus, its music & ...

Spotlight Central and Love Imagery have photos and a recap of The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, featuring trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, at the State Theatre on January 22, 2026. Entitled "Duke in ...

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