I was 9 when I first heard the gayageum (Korean zither) in the song "O Nara" from the historical K-drama "Jewel in the Palace." While I couldn't understand a word of the lyrics, the uniqueness of the ...

Against the odds, street musicians vie with satellite TV and the Internet Add as a preferred source on Google Cairo: At a Nile-side esplanade, he tenderly held a locally made fiddle and started ...

LUXOR, Egypt, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- "One man's trash is another man's treasure," said Shady Rabab, 27-year-old founder of the Garbage Music Band. "Music could come out of anything, even dismissed ...

The songs and music of Ancient Egypt may have been forever lost to time. But archaeologists have uncovered evidence to suggest skilled musicians were present around the rise of the Pharaohs in 3,100 ...