Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...
Some, like Kouyaté, play a xylophone-like instrument called the balafon ... and I don't know what the blues is." African Americans would later mix and morph these West African sounds into ...
The instruments ... first time as a musical play. Not surprisingly, the plantation songs of Stephen Foster often accompanied such musicals. Stowe's story of an African American family's oppression ...