Apple Music has released this month’s Africa Now DJ Mix, featuring Nigerian DJ, producer and tastemaker DJ Big N. One of the most influential figures in contemporary Afrobeats, DJ Big N has played a ...

Teachers can help the origins of jazz and hip-hop come alive for students with resources that highlight these influential ...

The Voice of America launched African Music Mix, a stream of African music, available to African listeners daily. The show is broadcast daily and includes contents from a VOA archive of 12,000 African ...

As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly prominent role — not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture.

The code has been copied to your clipboard. The URL has been copied to your clipboard On African Music Mix from N’dombolo to Benga to African Hip Hop, you’ll find the best mix of ...

Apple Music has expanded its flagship African Music playlist and radio brand, Africa Now, to include a new monthly DJ Mix created exclusively for the platform. Previous ...

Thinking back on the biggest cultural moments of 2024, it’s hard to ignore the many African women who were at the center of it all. Over the past decade, global African music has been dominated by ...

From samba to hip hop to reggae, so much of the music we enjoy has African roots. Tonight, for the first time, the Grammy Awards is recognizing music produced in Africa with a category of its own.

It’s not easy to steal the show at the Met Gala. But no one who saw the South African singer Tyla ascend the stairs in May in a one-off Balmain couture gown made of sculpted sand will ever forget it. ...

Introduction: country music and racial formation / Diane Pecknold -- Black hillbillies: African American musicians on old-time records, 1924-1932 / Patrick Huber -- Making country modern : the legacy ...