The Caribbean is much more than just beaches and sunshine. It has music that has gone across the world and influenced many ...

Introduction: Slaves to the rhythm -- Beating back darkness: rhythm and revolution in Haiti -- Rhythm, Creolization, and conflict in Trinidad -- Rhythm, music, and literature in the French Caribbean - ...

The opening bars on Detroit drummer Roy Brooks’ swinging live date from 1970 come from bassist Cecil McBee and pianist Hugh ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT LATIN RHYTHM SONGS, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEAUSRED BY MEDIABASE AND ...

Latin America is a region bursting with rhythm, melody, and soul. From the pulsating beats of Afro-Caribbean drums to the ...

Sept. 16, 2025, marks what would have been B.B. King's 100th birthday. Events in Memphis are planned to celebrate the blues ...

*Michael Jackson’s music continues to resonate with audiences decades after it first debuted. From timeless classics like “I Want You Back” and “Beat It” to the iconic “Thriller” and “Man in the ...

Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 46, No. 4 (MAY 2015), pp. 363-383 (21 pages) The purpose of this article is to explore how music provided the U.S. plantation-slaves with a space in which the hegemony ...

Three musicians are creating a digital map about the history of clawhammer banjo players of Southwest Virginia.

Conservatives and others with common sense will regard it as an innocent comment, well within the bounds of propriety. According to the hideous rules imposed on us by woke liberals, however, the ...