One of the best-known African drums is the West African djembe. It is shaped like a large goblet and played with bare hands. The body is carved from a hollowed trunk and is covered in goat skin.

Simmons said African American drummers started buying them because Les Ballets Africains’ drummers did not want to take the instruments back to their homeland. “They wanted to get rid of them,” he ...

Jessie Lehmann, a member of The Know Bodies Band, discovered her passion for traditional West African drumming before she ...

Although a melody is not always heard in traditional African music, some ensembles do include some melodic devices and instruments. For example: Although the two rhythms divide the bar of music ...

His groundbreaking research told stories of sounds and songs transported from Africa to the Americas. Dance to drums of the African diaspora, whose rhythms resound in Latin jazz, mambo, and Bomba del ...

Drumming and dancing filled the afternoon as a performing group brought a West African drum meditation to the Student ...

Valdosta State University’s Sociology of Music class hosted The Family Village of Aya for a West African drum and dance ...