Playing drums is a popular activity among the Miao people in Jishou, Hunan province, and helps the ethnic group retain its history and culture. The local drum performances are also called "drum dance" ...

She flows and crashes, like water. Her hips whip like waves in the wind. Her legs, dark chocolate and smooth as silk, kick and crash in a stern, matriarchal stomp. And she manipulates the flow of ...

The Ansai waist-drum dance takes its name from its birthplace, Ansai county in Northern Shaanxi province of midwest China, in the middle of the Loess Plateau. Cut off from the surrounding areas either ...

On a recent Saturday, the main hall of Yale’s Afro-American Cultural Center echoed with the sound of drums, playing driving, intricate rhythms together — compelling enough to bring someone in off the ...

It’s a Monday evening — after work for most everyone in the brightly lit studio. But here the 13 women and three men are giving off white-hot energy. The men rhythmically and ferociously beat the ...

THE techniques and repertoire of traditional African music are handed down by word of mouth. There are skilled musicians who make music their profession. However, participation in music is generally ...

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Clubs give kids structure and practice everywhere from neighborhood parks to parking lots under highway overpass Many local kids spend several hours most weekday nights during the summer months ...

Trainees perform Lu'nan Flower Drum Dance at the Taierzhuang ancient town in Zaozhuang, east China's Shandong Province, June 9, 2019. Long Xuemei was recognized in 2018 as the inheritor of Lu'nan ...