Picture a goblet shaped drum carved from a single piece of hardwood and you’ll get the idea. The word “djembe” itself comes ...

One of Tanzania’s most endangered possessions isn’t its wildlife; it’s its music. Dozens of musical instruments – and the skill set to play them – are facing extinction in Tanzania, which is why ...

African instruments are rich and unique in their sounds. With such uniqueness in sound, they have influenced music from other parts of the world. Here are 7 musical instruments whose origin dates back ...

Rattles and clappers -- Drums -- Xylophones and 'sansas' -- Bill-roarers and spinning-disks -- Horns and trumpets -- Whistles, flutes and vibrating reeds -- Reed ...

Africa Music Library (AML), a non-governmental music collective dedicated to the archiving, preservation and study of African music, and connecting older and newer generation of African musicians ...

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 ...

Dr. Amanda Villepastour, curator of the Musical Instrument Museum‘s Africa and Middle East galleries, is leaving the north Phoenix museum. Villepastour, whose last day at MIM is December 17, declined ...

A conversation between scholar Umi Vaughan and author Mahealani Uchiyama in celebration of the release of her book The Mbira, An African Musical Tradition. The book is an overview steeped in the ...