The Climate Message: Michelle Kisliuk & Students
Michelle Kisliuk & Students at University of Virginia – Voice, clapping Virginia, USA If you’re a performer in any idiom, please consider […]
Tag: Africa
Saturday’s Endangered Music: The BaAka Pygmies of Cameroon
Some of the most beautiful and emotionally affecting singing I know of comes fro the BaAka Pygmies of Cameroon, who yodel polyrhythmic […]
The Climate Message: Nani Agbeli
Nani Agbeli is an Ewe master drummer and dancer originally from Ghana, West Africa. He is now on the faculty of music […]
Climate Message: Banning Eyre
Afropop expert Banning Eyre delivers the Message from his home in Connecticut, USA. If you’re a performer in any idiom, please consider […]
Dear Cousins, Dear Cousins
We haven’t succeeded in killing off all our primate relatives yet. A group of scientists has discovered an enormous society of chimpanzees […]
The Niger Delta – Horribly Polluted By Big Oil And Greed
Another in the dishonor roll of the world’s most heavily polluted sites is the Niger Delta, at the mouth of the River […]
Saturday’s Endangered Music: Ghana
I began studying Ghanaian music with David Locke in 1979, and even though I never went as deeply into the music as […]
Making Guitars in A Malawi Refugee Camp
L.G. Patron lives in the Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi, a complex of shelters and dwellings that has housed refugees from several […]
The Pygmies of Cameroon
Africa is an entire musical universe, and I could show you stuff for hours. But some of the most beautiful and emotionally […]