Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. News of D'Angelo's death has rattled the world of music. The neo-soul trailblazer, who was only 51, had been privately battling ...

But the 2007 Voodoo Music Experience was not quite finished. Amid the carved masks and ankh jewelry of the African Cultural Tent on the main Voodoo midway, the Rebirth Brass Band kicked into high gear ...

African music, with its distinctive emphasis on polyrhythm and beats flowing from percussive instruments, was long treated as subordinate in the international music arena. Music from the continent ...