by Jeremy Cohen | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog
Had a great time performing with my student African Drumming ensembles last week at ZUMIX, the community music school in inner city East Boston where I started the African Drumming program in 2007. ZUMIX has grown a lot since then, recently winning the 2011 National...
by Jeremy Cohen | Dec 14, 2010 | Blog
Check out my Fall African Drumming class at Westfield State University performing the Ewe war piece Atsiagbekor (commonly referred to as Agbekor) at our recital this past Friday. The video quality leaves something to be desired — and I should have tuned my atsimevu...
by Jeremy Cohen | Nov 27, 2010 | Blog
This will be the first of several posts exploring the interplay between music, language and sound, particularly as it relates to African drumming. We’ll start by addressing the notion of “drum language.” In my view, drum language can be placed into...
