Afrobeats is everywhere. From domination in west Africa itself, Nigeria’s version of afropop – a mash-up of styles and language and heavy rhythms – became an international phenomenon. It’s now blaring ...

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition. By Giovanni Russonello Foday Musa Suso, a griot, ...

West African drumming, dance and song will move from Gettysburg’s Lincoln Square to the Gettysburg College campus during “The Forbidden Drum,” an upcoming four-day music program that will take place ...

The term Afrobeats is applied to all sorts of genres, flattening them into one. Artists, media and the music industry must do better at showing off the richness of African pop ...

The passing of celebrated Malian flautist, composer and arranger Boncana Maïga at the age of 77 truly marks the end of an era in the music of west Africa. He was a charismatic performer and bandleader ...

The world has lost a significant musical ambassador for the Mande people of west Africa – the virtuoso kora player, composer, and collaborator from Mali, Toumani Diabaté. He died on 19 July, just ...

The new label venture will be distributed by Warner Music's ADA. By Chris Eggertsen Jasmine “Jazz” Young, a former Def Jam executive and now director of the Warner Music/Blavatnik Center for Music ...

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Elementary School gymnasium Friday morning was filled with the rhythmic sounds of West African music — drumming and singing — as students, faculty and staff listened and ...

The First Recording of Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" Chris Ware and Scott Yoo discuss the first recording of "The Entertainer." I mean, the thing about Scott, he's really bringing in different ...

Washington, D.C. (7News) — For more than four decades, Kankouran West African Dance Company has been preserving and sharing the rich traditions of West African music, dance, and culture in the ...