Scott Joplin, known as the “King of Ragtime”, composed more than 40 musical pieces, including “Maple Leaf Rag” and “The ...

In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present ...

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For Black History Month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison kicks off a weekly series with a deep dive into the history ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

The Jacobs School of Music’s Graduate Theory Association and Graduate Musicology Association will host the 32nd Annual ...

By the 1920s, “race films,” movies starring largely Black casts, marketed to Black audiences and often produced by ...

Night listening hits differently when the world goes quiet. These 10 albums, featuring Omah Lay, Tems, and Wizkid, are ...

Clergy demonstrating against ICE in Minneapolis have turned to classic ‘freedom songs’ – the music associated with protests ...

On Friday, April 3 comes the “Spring Faculty Dance Concert: The FAB Dance Party!,” held in the Fries Art Building. This is the first of two shows. The second, Wes Arabesque’s “Alice in Wonderland,” ...

Long a collectors’ holy grail, this searching, atmospheric soundtrack recorded for Chicago’s Adler Planetarium in 1993 mixes spiritual jazz with avant-garde pan-Africanism.

History was made last night when the Recording Academy, the body that organises the Grammy Awards, honoured music legends at the Special Merit Awards ceremony. Nigeria's own music legend, Fela ...