Last year Americans finally discovered Congolese music. Trancey enough for club rats and New Agers both, the distorted thumb pianos and junkyard clatter of Konono No. 1’s Congotronics also rang with ...
Kim Chase is an atheist, but she considers Franco-American music sacred. In her first year teaching at Lyman C. Hunt Middle School in Burlington, when she tried to lead the class in French folk songs, ...
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A huge bronze statue of a smiling Franco Luambo Makiadi, a guitar strapped to his burly ...
When the Congolese musician Franco died of an illness believed to be AIDS, in October of 1989, the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko declared four days of national mourning. Many of the members of Franco’s ...
One expects a Disney animated film to have great music. But when the setting is outside the United States, it’s especially crucial that the musical backdrop be true to the locale. Composer Germaine ...
A huge bronze statue of a smiling Franco Luambo Makiadi, a guitar strapped to his burly self, towers above Kinshasa; a fitting tribute to arguably the most significant cultural icons that Africa has ...
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