The first ever MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain (MAMA) exploded into passionate life on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at The Velodrome in Abuja, Nigeria. Created by MTV’s African music channel, MTV base, the MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain was conceived as the ultimate celebration of African contemporary music and talent.

Thriving nightclubs, popular festivals and favorite sons like Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughan have given Austin a well-deserved, if boastful, moniker: Live Music Capital of the World. But the

NEW YORK - To record his third studio CD, Jason Mraz withdrew from the music industry so he wouldn’t be affected by album sales and charts.

NEW YORK - For Daniel Barenboim, music and politics meld together.

Contemporary art and music have always had their detractors. Orchestras don’t program a lot of atonal music and avant garde art takes a back seat to the old masters in most museums. But in Cleveland, a collaboration between the Cleveland Orchestra and the Museum of Contemporary Art has opened ears, eyes, and minds. WKSU’s Vivian Goodman reports.