Musicians of the African American Composer Initiative perform during a previous AACI concert at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto. Courtesy AACI. The endeavor to challenge the limiting way in ...

There once was a tremendously popular piece of music about a Native American which was written by a composer of African descent whose forbearers had been slaves in the New World prior to the American ...

The musicians of the African American Composer Initiative will return to Eastside College Prep to present benefit concerts dedicated to the rich heritage of music by African American composers. The ...

Sebrina María Alfonso says that her love for music began at an early age, where it was nurtured during elementary school and cemented in the ninth grade. At the time, her Key West-based family picked ...

Counterpoint, Vermont’s professional vocal ensemble, is well known for its performance of African American spirituals and folk music. For its March program, rather than focusing on genres typically ...

Olly Wilson, an adventurous composer who integrated African, African-American and electronic rhythms, riffs and sounds into Western classical music conventions, died March 12 in Oakland, California.

Exploding the assumption that Black women's only important musical contributions have been in folk, jazz, and pop. Helen Walker-Hill's unique study provides a carefully researched examination of the ...

When Colleen Cole Beucher started attending the University of Michigan in 2019, she had 13 years of voice study under her belt. Not once in those 13 years was she assigned a piece of music by a Black ...

Global tech giants are exploiting South African music to train AI, leaving local artists grappling with authenticity and ...

The rousing notes of the British national anthem God Save The King rang loudly in London’s Westminster Abbey when King Charles III was crowned – and in official and informal celebrations in many other ...