The phrase "african performances" is correct in written English, but it should be capitalized as "African performances." You can use it when discussing artistic or cultural events that originate from or are characteristic of Africa.
Example: "The festival showcased a variety of African performances, including traditional dance and music."
Alternatives: "African artistic displays" or "performances from Africa."
Footage of James Brown and others has shown up on the documentaries When We Were Kings and Soul Power, but this lavish two-CD set is the first time we've heard the African performances.
4.41pm GMT So, it's 1-1 with one to play I don't think it's going too far to say that was one of the great South African performances, given the context, and this evening session has already gone into folklore: they took the last nine wickets for 64, with Dale Steyn thrillingly unplayable.
We are also the creators of Musical Passage: A Voyage to 1688 Jamaica, a digital project that explores rare musical notation documenting African performances in the Americas.
Unlike Palmer, Gioia doesn't spend much time connecting the blues to West African performance patterns and rituals.
This multimodal African diasporic style also is evident in the hip-hop music of North America, and the origins of both can be traced to West African performance modes.
Cowboy poetry is a homespun amalgam of verbal arts from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales and was strongly influenced by Mexican and African performance traditions.
Thirdly, and most worrying for me, a better African performance in South Africa could have been a huge blow to democracy on the continent.
Yet the same city appears in Brent Stirton's "Portrait of Steven Cohen: Chandelier" as a prettily twinkling skyline behind the well-known South African performance artist, posed draped in lights, a kind of bright angel to Ms. Vari's dark angel.
Telfar teamed with South African performance artists FAKA and Ian Isiah to create a spectacular multi-artist "vocal collage"; Ralph Lauren enlisted Steven Spielberg to create an epic cinematic soundtrack to his show; and the Brooklyn-based designer Eckhaus Latta enlisted the Young People Orchestra – comprising babies and children – to play a live improvised acoustic set.
Nigeria striker Kalu Uche pulled of the best African performance in the Super Lig with a hat-trick for Kasimpasa who beat Elazigspor 3-0.
Between these American journeys, Tippett travelled to Lusaka for the first African performance of A Child of Our Time, at which the Zambian president, Kenneth Kaunda, was present.
