THE techniques and repertoire of traditional African music are handed down by word of mouth. There are skilled musicians who make music their profession. However, participation in music is generally ...

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The joy and laughter of children and their parents along with the steady rhythmic pulsating beat of dejembe drums filled the sudio one room at the East Jefferson YMCA in Metairie. Amy Segar watched as ...

On a recent Saturday, the main hall of Yale’s Afro-American Cultural Center echoed with the sound of drums, playing driving, intricate rhythms together — compelling enough to bring someone in off the ...

Selah Thompson (front) teaches how the skirt is used in Afro Cuban dance to mimic natural movements seen in nature at the Traditional Music Society dance class. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star ...

Women are singing, a couple dances, and drummers play the greatest African instrument. This is the highly traditional Panamian dance, the bullerengue. The dance that is the product of a painful past ...

The kids of Hartford’s Proud Drill, Drum & Dance Corp want to end violence in their neighborhoods. The after school program, founded seven years ago by Hartford resident Terry Starks and her husband ...