Situated in a dark groove is a drum never to be beaten. Thin as a strand of hair, the delicate drum transmits sound waves. This drum does not speak; it only listens and understands, even before its ...

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Early American banjo music is Black music, developed by enslaved Africans and rooted in Black culture through the early 1800s ...

TAYLORSVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) --The gourd becomes the center of attention at this annual event. WDRB's Keith Kaiser learns about the Taylorsville Gourd Festival. Experience the vibrant world of Gourd ...

There’s excitement bubbling in Kigali, Rwanda, ahead of the Global AI Summit on Africa, which opens today, promising economic opportunities and innovation. Not least because of last week’s ...

Of West African origin, the dried gourd percussion instrument is also known as cas cas or kashaka, and hails from countries, including Ghana, Senegal and the Ivory Coast. Once completely invested ...

They also recreated some African instruments. Master percussionist Chief ... on the balafon [a gourd-resonating xylophone], the various wooden key instruments, and on the string instruments.

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the instruments frequently played by enslaved West African musicians were plucked string instruments made from gourds and called bandora, banza, banjah and akonting. The artist-grade five-string ...

the initiative also produces the African wine kettle variety and long dipper gourds, commonly used for lamps, vases, bowls, and musical instruments. During cultural festivals and Thanksgiving, gourd ...

Dena Jennings of Nasons will offer two workshops about the history and techniques behind making gourd instruments—the precedent to today’s banjo, which is often separated from its African origin story ...

Today, resonator pipes of different lengths are a substitute for the gourds ... to ears not used to Southern African languages, sound similar, the two instruments are very different.