For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their conditions. Later, it ...

Bad Bunny's album "Debí Tirar Más Fotos" uses Puerto Rican genres that were created and developed by Afro-Puerto Ricans.

Students will listen to music from Ghana, Nigeria, Cuba, and Puerto Rico to learn how this polyrhythmic tradition followed Africans to the Caribbean as a result of the transatlantic slave trade.

The West African instrument dùndún is also known as “talking drum” because players can match the pitch and rhythm of speech patterns on it. A new study reveals just how closely dùndún players match ...

No musician has been more devoted to exploring the connection between Afro-American classical music (jazz) and the ancestral spirits and rhythms of the African continent than Randy Weston. The ...

It was telling of Omelika Kuumba’s spirit that on her birthday, her first after losing both parents within eight months of one another, she would give a concert in their honor. Near the end of her ...