DECATUR — Johns Hill Music Makers learn fast. In one class period Friday, choral director Heather Pistorius taught the sixth-grade choir a traditional South African folk song, “Lilizela,” complete ...

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Walter Jones Jr., a singer and storyteller with the Griot Circle, a Baltimore-based West African cultural organization, sings a traditional African folk song for the audience at Saturday's Stories and ...

South African music has been ranked 12th out of 30 countries worldwide for its global musical influence. This is according to The Global Influential Music Index conducted by Medimops, a European music ...

A composer of great stature, Professor James Stephen Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932-2021) stands out for his contribution to South African arts and culture. He was a distinguished teacher, a professor of ...

African music, with its distinctive emphasis on polyrhythm and beats flowing from percussive instruments, was long treated as subordinate in the international music arena. Music from the continent ...

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The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...