Pop superstar Beyoncé released "Texas Hold 'Em" a few weeks ago and it features an instrument that she had never emphasized before. This hit song, on her new (and hugely popular) Cowboy Carter album, ...

Foday Musa Suso, a player of traditional African stringed instruments, capped the 1992 International Performing Arts Festival on Saturday with a striking and hypnotic performance in Bushnell Park.

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world ...

The djembe drum dates back roughly between 400 and 800 years, created during the Malian Empire by the Mandé people across regions including Senegal, Mali, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast. Picture a goblet ...