While lutes and stringed instruments have been staples in cultures from around the world for thousands of years, the origins ...

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The United States withdrew its military personnel from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan a day after ...

This moment might call for excessive, imaginative Black art that wants to be gobbled up. That’s Ryan Coogler’s new movie.

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"In order to understand the history of the banjo and the history of bluegrass music," she told ... is mostly derived from a ...

The basic design of that homemade banjo, which descended from African forebears, spread quickly, and by the 18th century, versions of these round-bodied, plucked-string resonators were found in ...

When a musician of Rhiannon Giddens’ stature comes to perform in your town for the first time, a celebration is in order.

May will be active at Fiddlers Crossing. The downtown, Tehachapi music venue will present two concerts this month.

Giddens often talks about the banjo’s West African roots and last week released a new album with former band mate Justin Robinson titled “What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow.” The work ...