For a little more than three decades, Simmons has taught classes in West African and Afro-Cuban music and history at Duke University. Simmons says his djembe classes are typically small. But that does ...

Fela Kuti is renowned as the innovator of Afrobeat, a creative blend of his native West African music, James Brown funk, and big horn jazz rhythms that were meant for more than just jump up dance and ...

Growing up in a rural part of Tennessee, Keenan Webster would listen to gospel music at church, and hear the influence of ...

Over the last 30 years one of the very cool trends in the international music scene is the growing popularity of West African “desert blues”: music from the Sahel region that draws on some of the same ...

Our four non-Western music ensembles—open to both music majors and non-music majors—explore West African Highlife, Japanese, Gamelan and Latin American traditions. Each ensemble presents one public ...

Audiomack’s rise in West Africa was initially unintentional, but it has since become a case study in the potential of emerging markets and how smaller music platforms can thrive alongside ...

Though Amapiano is a music genre with Mzansi origins, South Africans often lack a proper understanding of its global reach. Amapiano is currently South Africa’s most significant musical export ...

Grace Nyele Mensah, Operations and Music Publishing Lead at Ghana's Apprise Music, represented the West African nation at the ...