Carter's new album marks a new direction for the jazz violinist: The record interprets African folk songs, both traditional and contemporary. Carter and members of her band recently visited NPR to ...

Josie Field and Laurie Levine blend various music types, including folk, blues and country, with their rich harmonies and a variety of instruments ...

Its journal, African Music, now in its 6th decade, remains the only academic journal in the world devoted to research on African music. ILAM aims to promote knowledge of music making in Africa which ...

Seeger was handed a recording of what he believed to be a traditional, or public-domain, African folk song, and he immediately fell for its enchanting rhythm.

She left South Africa in 2004 and wants to explain her unlikely journey from townships to opera houses with her album, by fusing elements of traditional South African folk songs with popular opera ...

Many Western listeners will forever associate the group with Paul Simon’s 1986 masterpiece “Graceland,” which was initially inspired by South African folk music and then famously accompanied ...

When African rhythms meet Malayalam folk Thakita fuses ethnic music of Africa and Kerala with a touch of funk and groove ...

The Second African Folk Music Festival, which seeks to restore and promote indigenous Ghanaian and African cultural identity, was on Wednesday launched in Accra.

Hugh Masekela, 78, a South African trumpeter and singer who mixed American jazz with African folk in records that made him an early avatar of world music and a joyful standard-bearer of his ...

Carter's new album marks a new direction for the jazz violinist: The record interprets African folk songs, both traditional and contemporary. Carter and members of her band recently visited NPR to ...