Teachers can help the origins of jazz and hip-hop come alive for students with resources that highlight these influential ...

The West African Highlife Band brings together an all-star group of distinguished West African music veterans who bring the classic sound from highlife’s golden age. Highlife originated in Ghana in ...

Amid Black History Month celebrations in February, some local musicians say they are finding more opportunities at various venues to share their work and stories. One Bay Area man who plays an unusual ...

Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A group of Central Ohio children got a taste of West African music, dancing and drumming on Friday. The Columbus Metropolitan Library invited kids aged 7-11 to celebrate ...

Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she even visited Africa. Through a drum club at her college, Lehmann, who had no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emerging in the 2000s, Afrobeats is a popular style of West African music that employs polyrhythms and syncopation and draws ...

Reviewed by Lloyd Geyde in Mail and guardian Friday (Johannesburg, South Africa) April 21-27, 2017, page 6. AFA copy 39088019012178 Gift from Janet Stanley. "Highlife Giants is an intimate portrait of ...

Grammy-nominated artist Davido has revealed that the term “Afrobeats” was popularised by British media as a convenient label for the emerging wave of West African music, distinct from the original ...