Africanist scholar and photographer C. Daniel Dawson explores Afro-diasporic cosmologies, sacred performance, and embodied memory through the lens of national musics in the Americas such as Bomba, Rumba, Samba, Mambo, Cumbia and Tango. Mambo, meaning important issue or problem in the original Kongo context, reveals the African origin of these traditions. Composer and master percussionist Adam Rudolph, renowned for his knowledge of rhythm and sonic histories across cultures, responds by reflecting on musical transmission, ancestral energies, and creative lineages. Together, they will examine how mythologems and rhythms circulate across cultures and epochs.