Come discover Madagascar--its geography, animals, music and language. Test your current knowledge and learn new things too.

An overview of how music has influenced history throughout time. Choose links from common questions to music resources.

African drumming and dance are discussed in this interesting site. You can play with some of the interactive African style drums as well as access video and audio clips of the music.

Search for African artists alphabetically or by country. Then you will get a bio of the individual or group.

Overview and definition of blues music that developed in the southern United States in the early nineteenth century. Performers from Georgia include Ray Charles, Ma Rainey, Little Richard, and the Allman Brothers.

This encyclopedia entry gives a brief history of rap and hip hop and the influences of the music on modern culture.

Contains resources on black culture and music from the early 1900s to the present.

Learn about and listen to jazz, blues, folk, and country musician Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong and his roots in America's musical past. "Sweet Old Song" tells the story of the music and art partnership between Armstrong and his...

Provides the life story of African American country music superstar, Charley Pride, a 2000 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Click on the arrows to listen to him singing three songs.

Online exhibit from the Library of Congress explores black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. Exhibit contains a wealth of items including books, government documents, manuscripts,...

By examining the lives and lyrics of popular, positive black female rappers such as Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill, young scholars can trace a direct line back to the inspirational writer and poet, Maya Angelou. Rap lyrics will help...

Listen to a contemporary style of music from Madagascar, called "salegy," which blends the musical traditions of Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean, and Indonesia.

This alphabetized list of musical forms and styles briefly defines and describes the types of musical sounds and genres created throughout history.

View 1,300 pieces of sheet music composed by and about African Americans between 1850-1920.

Article explores the influence of jazz on African American literature from the early history of jazz, noted jazz artists, the black-white tensions within jazz, to its literary influence after World War II.

Kyan is an African villager. Can you help him name and define different parts of shapes?

A radio host talks about new music from West Africa. While profiling four popular artists, the substance in this site describes the flavor of the popular music.

Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of South African Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)

This is a short history of the major influences that have combined to create mountain music, one of which is minstrel music. Provides a good decription of minstrel music in general. Includes names and descriptions of specific songs,...

In this lesson plan, students will consider "The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights Movement." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.

Trace the history of the blues in America through the play, Blues Journey, based on the book by Walter Dean Myers. You can see video clips of the stage play, listen to blues radio shows, and learn about different types of blues music.

An informative look at the influence of African music in Canada.

Presented as an ABC list of cultural features of South Africa. Each letter links to a topic, and each topic has a paragraph with a link to more in-depth, and often fascinating, information about that topic, and about the history of South...

Learn about African musicians and their music, at this encyclopedia site.