A fusion of Western forms and multi-voiced African accents, an in-depth guide to the finest composers and works African Art Music is a richly diverse genre bridging Western classical music and ...

The University of South Africa (Unisa) hosted its inaugural African Music Festival over the weekend at its main campus in Pretoria offering a unique celebration of Africa’s rich musical heritage ...

The University of South Africa, Unisa, made history with the inaugural Unisa African Music Festival hosted on 26 and 27 September 2025 at its Muckleneuk Campus in Pretoria. The two-day event brought ...

Essay on categorizing the representations of humans and animals on Central African musical instruments. Laurenty develops a four-part schema (page 48), which is based on whether the whole or a part of ...

Translated with changes by John Shepley from "Les instruments de musique africains et leur décorations," Arts d'Afrique noire (Arnouville) no. 24, hiver 1977, pages 18-33. siris_sil_551534 ...

Nigerian soprano, Ms. Uche Aghulor, is redefining classical music by fusing African cultural identity with Western traditions. From a church choir in Delta State to prestigious stages in Athens, ...

“How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his ...

African drumming employs the following techniques and devices. Each one can be transferred to other genres of music and should be recalled if asked to perform or compose a piece of music. In ...

Bayaka hunter-gatherers in Congo playing musical instruments and dancing, which helps them to spread cultural traits and specialized vocabulary between different groups.Credit: Rodolph Schlaepfer, ...

You may be familiar with musical instruments such as the drums, guitar and piano. These are very well-known instruments, used in lots of music we listen to. There are also lots of musical instruments ...