The “Black Church in Detroit” explores the history and influence of Black religious music. For Black Music Month, host Stephen Henderson talks with Rev. Larry Simmons of Baber Memorial AME Church and ...

Essays from a symposium in honor of Gerhard Kubik, held in December 2004 at the University of Vienna. Accompanying DVD-ROM contains photographs, videorecordings, and audio recordings to illustrate the ...

In the years after Emancipation, a new sound emerged among formerly enslaved African-American communities working on cotton plantations in the Deep South. An amalgamation of field hollers, church ...

"South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of ...

African music, with its distinctive emphasis on polyrhythm and beats flowing from percussive instruments, was long treated as subordinate in the international music arena. Music from the continent ...

Renowned African musician, songwriter and storyteller Latozi “Madosini” Mphahleni passed away late in 2022. The cultural and indigenous music activist, who laughed as often as she played, was loved by ...

Biographies of important South African musicians often fall into two categories: they either emerge from PhD or other university-based research, or are the fruit of dedicated digging by a fan or ...

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 first, ...

Legacy Africa Music Awards (LAMA) is an award that celebrates the pioneers of African music, whose talent have helped shape the sound of Africa. DOHA, QATAR, July 14 ...

African-led AI tools: New platforms like Nigeria’s Korin AI are enabling artists to create music in native African languages with authentic pronunciation and style. Ethics and preservation: Projects ...