Gnawa music is often likened to American blues and gospel. Gnawa music is a mixture of African rhythms and Islamic poetry created by enslaved West Africans brought to Morocco. For centuries, it was ...

At 2 p.m. Feb. 3, I met John Fleming, his sister, and Ruby Miller, at the American Museum of Science and Energy. It was my privilege to provide a tour to acquaint our speaker for the evening with ...

The 2024 Grammy Awards saw the inception of the "Best African Music Performance" category. However, some digging shows how the category leaves out a large scope of the music coming out of the ...

As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture. That momentum will be on display ...

The mainstream pop world still may not be aware of it but, over the last four decades, there has been a distinctive brand of guitar-driven, blues and rock-flavored music wafting in from northwestern ...

John F. Kennedy, the man and the myth -- JFK says I've got to go -- Twistin' out in space -- The welfare turns its back on you -- March on, Dr. Martin Luther King -- The day the world stood still ...

Corey Harris won the MacArthur Fellowship, the $500,000 “genius award,” two years ago for his unrelenting quest to trace the blues back to Africa. This week the ...

The trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn will premiere “The Blues and Its People,” a suite inspired by Baraka’s influential text, to mark its 60th anniversary. By Alan Scherstuhl When he first read ...

The 2024 Grammy awards will see the introduction of a new category: "best African music performance." When the category was announced last year, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. stated that it would be ...

St. Louis is a strange and wonderful place that scarcely knows itself, so it’s no surprise that few people know that this city was once home to the leadership of an exiled African revolution. One of ...