Two men have arranged for musical instruments to be donated to children in Kenya and Cape Verde.

African instruments are rich and unique in their sounds. With such uniqueness in sound, they have influenced music from other parts of the world. Here are 7 musical instruments whose origin dates back ...

The aesthetic dimensions of African musical instruments are not only visual, but aural and symbolic as well. As cultural objects, they can represent and reinforce political authority, social ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world ...

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...

Essay on categorizing the representations of humans and animals on Central African musical instruments. Laurenty develops a four-part schema (page 48), which is based on whether the whole or a part of ...

Listeners who come to traditional African music from the American variety will find it a refreshingly organic experience. The sonorities reflect a variety of instruments both ancient and modern, ...

How African instruments, rhythms, and innovators shaped the genre long before it became a cultural symbol of the American South. Long before country music became a billion-dollar cultural force, its ...