Murky Recess

Tribo Massàhi is a perfect example of how user-generated content online is overturning how we create cultural canons. This obscure g...

Body found at the Detroit Public Schools Book Depository

The missionary mating practice of the elephant, as imagined by the French naturalist Buffon. No single person had a...

EP-4 formed in 1980 out of a scene at Club Modern in Kyoto, mainly a collaboration between Kaoru Sato and keyboardist/tape manipulator ...

I can find no information about Zenet Muhaba online, but I hope these videos will serve as introduction enough. Like the posts I've done...

\ Top to Bottom, Left to Right: Agnes//Unknown//Unknown//La Polar//Solea "La Morena"//Conchita

    Seriously, how great is that cover? Before becoming French pop star Charles de Goal , Patrick Blain was part of C.O.M.A, an electro...

Polly Jenkins and Her Plowboys in the Gene Autry film Man from Music Mountain (1938).

The Marrakech-born Maâlem Mustapha Baqbou is one of the great sentir (or gimbri ) players of gnawi trance music. Gnawa is traditionally he...

Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten performs in her Syracuse, NY home at the age of 90. Segment aired on Aly Bain's BBC series, Down H...

Despite being hideously assassinated in his prime by the mass mind's collective will, Eric Dolphy's music has thankfully not been ...

Two early underwater diving machines: Frederic Drieberg's Le Triton, 1805 (top) and Karl Heinrich Klingert's copper kettle, 1797 (b...

    Between formed in Munich around two classically trained musicians—minimalist maestro Peter Michael Hamel and Popul Voh oboist/invent...

Filmed in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia, Holy Ghost People (1967) joins the Holiness church for worship. Director Peter Adair's ethn...

Originally the brainchild of João Ricardo, Secos & Molhados took definitive form in August 1972 with the addition of the bisexually char...

  The fact that Tsehay Yohannes (ፀሃየ ዮሃንስ) has not been featured on the voluminous Ethiopiques series is a testament to the richness of Eth...