Music has always been a part of South Africa’s history. From the ramkie, a three- to four-string guitar that was developed in the 1600s by the Khoi-Khoi, to the gold miners in late 1800s who would ...

Londonist loves a good learn, and musical instruments are right up there with languages as far as getting your head around a new non-work skill is concerned. But why stick with a boring old piano or ...

It can be hard to get beyond hymns and arias when it comes to thinking of the music of Wales. This beautiful book celebrates the enormous diversity delivered by acoustic instruments ranging from the ...

Your browser does not support the canvas. As part of a new partnership with the National Arts Festival, the South African Post Office will launch a new series of ...

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - South African composer Philip Miller returns to MASS MoCA on Friday, September 25, 2009, with a work-in-progress musical performance based on the tragic tale of the Hottentot ...

Saartjie Baartman's short, sad -- but ultimately historic -- existence is paid tender tribute in Rachel Holmes' scholarly "African Queen, The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus." It is an astonishing ...