Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the American musical mainstream, creating popular new American music genres ...

to promote diversity in music and to bring the work of African American composers, both living and deceased, back into popular imagination is no easy feat. For the team that runs the African ...

NEWS. GOOD MORNING TO YOU. I’M JENNIFER BAYLESS, JERRY TOLSON DAVID CLARK ARE HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MUSIC HERITAGE INSTITUTE. I ALMOST MESSED THAT UP DIDN’T I?

Def Leppard’s hit single "Rocket" traces the band's history in a glam metal origin story from their 1987 masterpiece ...

Festival of World Music includes performances by two student groups whose music is rooted in uniquely American traditions.

William Claiborne, the first American-appointed ... These gatherings maintained crucial African musical elements – complex polyrhythms, call-and-response patterns, and improvisation – that ...

Shannon Sanders, a renowned music industry executive from Nashville, is celebrated with a "Living Legend" exhibit at the National Museum of African American Music. Sanders embodies the city's rich ...

The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) will present "Jubilation! Ambassadors on a Sacred Journey," an exhibit celebrating the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The exhibit, opening May 10th in ...