“How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his ...

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 ...

The first international exhibition devoted exclusively to African musical instruments as works of art will open with a free public concert and reception July 16 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. ” ...

Africa Music Library (AML), a non-governmental music collective dedicated to the archiving, preservation and study of African music, and connecting older and newer generation of African musicians ...

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 ...

to concert at Montgomery County Community College|South African drummer and Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour artist Mogauwane Mahloele and his friends will be appearing in the Science Center ...

The National Troupe of Nigeria on Sunday said plans were underway to produce a performance of an African traditional musical instrument orchestra. Artistic Director of NTN, Kaltume Bulama-Gana, said ...

On Sunday, the National Troupe of Nigeria (NTN) said plans were underway to produce a performance of an African traditional musical instrument orchestra. Kaltume Bulama-Gana, artistic director of NTN, ...