Nigerian musicians have been very vocal about social injustice in the country. The term protest music as a genre, which gained popular cultural validity in the 1970s, has continued to date. These ...

Jo'burg, it seems, was not bound by genre limitations and the strictures of working within Apartheid-era South Africa. After 1973, Singana and Rabbitt remained the label’s mainstays but, in 1975, the ...

Mirissa Neff never studied filmmaking, but her unique path through life allowed her to pick up all the right skills, and to be in just the right place at the right time, to make the documentary “This ...

Folk music has often been a catalyst for social change. In "Amandla: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony," director Lee Hirsch has assembled a collage of music and history stressing the primacy of ...

Lorde and IDLES have joined over 1,000 artists and labels in the "No Music for Genocide" boycott, geo-blocking their music in ...

South African anti-apartheid music legend Miriam Makeba's classic "Pata Pata" has been re-released with new lyrics aimed at helping beat the spread of coronavirus, UNICEF said Thursday. The lyrics of ...

Massive Attack have requested that Universal Music Group removes the group's music from Spotify in all territories in a new statement.