NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Laura Atkinson and Justin Hicks of Louisville Public Media about shape note singing and its influence across the American musical tradition.

Each weekend, dancers stoked on music and alcohol sway to the old hits on the decrepit rooftop terrace of Kinshasa's ...

Who the hell is Lisa Sung, and why should you take the time to catch her performances in Manila from Feb. 11 to 14? For starters, the Korean-American pianist is a music educator with a solid academic ...

Timor-Leste's capital Dili is grappling with a dengue fever outbreak. Five children have died, and over one thousand cases have been recorded in just the past month. The surge in infections has ...

New Delhi, Feb 5 (PTI) Australian High Commissioner Philip Green on Wednesday said that after the acclaimed art exhibition -- 'Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters' -- being hosted in Delhi, he now d ...

Discover the rituals and significance of the Papua Boom Boom Ceremony. Catherine O'Hara's cause of death revealed FBI releases images of masked man in hunt for Savannah Guthrie's mother GOP Sen. Lisa ...

The next generation should protect Tamil culture and learn traditional music and dance, and there is a need to create a favourable environment to support them, State government’s Chief Secretary N.

Church leaders in Indonesia’s Christian-majority Papua have criticized the ‘excessive military’ presence in the region, calling it a flawed state policy to counter insurgency in the conflict-scarred ...

Nineteen years ago, Keith Murphy and his wife had just started to work with the Brattleboro Music Center, developing the traditional music program, when the idea of a festival came up. “We started ...

Within a forested limestone landscape of Papua New Guinea lives a shy, striking bird that’s new to science. This bird is also incredibly rare and may already be endangered, according to a recent study ...

An Australian cruise ship ran aground in Papua New Guinea. The incident took place at 5:25 a.m. local time off the coast of Finschhafen on Dec. 27, according to the Papua New Guinea National Maritime ...