Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

The djembe drum dates back roughly between 400 and 800 years, created during the Malian Empire by the Mandé people across regions including Senegal, Mali, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast. Picture a goblet ...

REPORTER: Lark in the Morning was founded in 1974 as a mail order store by Mickie Zekley. Over the next couple of decades, Mickie and his wife Elizabeth expanded, opening three stores, and starting ...

It is, perhaps, a paradox: that a thing designed specifically to make a beautiful sound should be suspended in silence, housed in humidity-controlled, sealed glass cabinets. Look but don't touch. See ...

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...