Click to open image viewer. Many Washingtonians danced to mambo rhythms driven by the bongo drum in the 1950s and 1960s. The double drum emerged about fifty years earlier in eastern Cuba with roots in ...

A house under lockdown can get lonely. So when Kavya Ramachandran dusted the covers off her ukulele months after she bought it, repaired its strings nibbled away by rats in her absence, and sat down ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This drum was made by Latin ...

1. The first recorded use of the word bongo for a breed of African antelope was in 1861. 2. The first recorded use of the word bongo for a pair of Cuban drums held between the knees and played with ...