When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A development of reggae in the late '70s, but really coming into its own in the '80s with the ...

audio: A song promoting a "rhythm for success," to inspire footballers to score more goals during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, has been composed by a Durham University researcher using a ...

The West African instrument dùndún is also known as “talking drum” because players can match the pitch and rhythm of speech patterns on it. A new study reveals just how closely dùndún players match ...

Tony Allen breaks down the five major drum patterns of Afrobeat in an unreleased clip from the recent documentary short Birth of Afrobeat. Production team Rest In Beats and director Opiyo Okeyo ...

There’s something deeply primal about rhythm. From the moment humans first pounded sticks on hollow wood, rhythm has shaped our cultures, stories, and ...