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 ...

Margarita Díaz-Andreu explores the intriguing relationship between Zimbabwean rock art and musical instruments. Southern Africa has a long history of rock art research. However, research ...

Lahja NashuutaUeshitile Banana Shekupe, a former liberation fighter and founder of the Ndilimani Cultural Troupe, said he will always cherish late Founding President Sam Nujoma for his instrumental ...

“African Suite” is one of two pieces by Nigerian composers featured in the concert Celebrating Black Voices in Classical ...

You may be familiar with musical instruments such as the drums ... Mbira is a musical instrument traditionally from Zimbabwe in Africa. It's sometimes called a thumb piano. Mbira is made from ...

White minstrels would perform these songs using banjos, fiddles, tambourines, and even animal jaw rattles — instruments popular with African American players. In turn, white music influenced ...

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 ...

Describing the African-American influence on American music in all of its glory an d variety is an intimidating—if not impossible—task. African American influences are so fundamental to American music ...

A similar range is reflected in their instruments, which include djembe ... the Church repertoire as a “key for deciphering African music.” At the start, this hybrid liturgy’s only available ...