After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, the documentary “The Music of Strangers: Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble” is now heading to Berlin and bringing with it ...

Almost anything can be a musical instrument. A horse’s jawbone? A couple of rocks, a stick, and some string? An armadillo shell? A box with a constantly buzzing antenna sticking out of it? Something ...

Alfredo Villar is a local historian and curator of Chicha music and poster art in Lima. Photographs by Joshua Eli Cogan, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archive Under cover of darkness, poster artist Monky ...

Partly housed in the former Old England department store, a landmark 1899 Art Nouveau building, the Musical Instruments Museum (also known as the "MIM") is located about a half-mile from the ...

In the last eighty years, traditional Kongo musical instruments such as elaborate bells, all sorts of drums and whistles, have almost disappeared from Kongo life. Still, MacGaffey speaks of them in ...

PHOENIX There are complete skins of animals, dried, tied and knotted, their orifices fitted with hollow canes and reeds. Other hides are stretched taut over enormous gourds. Strings, spun from ...