CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. While studying the syncretic nature of Cuban culture, anthropologist Fernando Ortiz helped bring together two music greats from very separate ...

From the publisher. Bata identifies both the two-headed, hourglass-shaped drum of the Yoruba people and the culture and style of drumming, singing, and dancing associated with it. This book recounts ...

Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Zahili Zamora shares music that celebrates her background. Pianist and vocalist Zahili Gonzalez Zamora, electric bassist and vocalist Gerson Lazo-Quiroga, drummer ...

OKAN showcases its fusion of Afro-Cuban roots, jazz, folk and global rhythms during two shows in the Vilar Performing Arts Center’s May Gallery Saturday. It’s all part of Live in the May Gallery, VPAC ...

I didn't know how much I didn't know about drums. There are drums that talk, that can imitate speech. There are drums grouped in families for the purpose of talking to each other. Tapping a drum with ...