Afropop Worldwide
554 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 281 ratingsAfropop Worldwide is an internationally syndicated weekly radio series, online guide to African and world music, and an international music archive, that has introduced American listeners to the music cultures of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean since 1988. Our radio program is hosted by Georges Collinet from Cameroon, the radio series is distributed by Public Radio International to 110 stations in the U.S., via XM satellite radio, in Africa via and Europe via Radio Multikulti.
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Dread Inna Inglan: How the UK took to reggae
March 20, 2015 17:14 - 108 MB[APWW PGM #681] [Originally aired in 2014] Jamaican music journeyed to England in the ‘60s when immigrants from the island flocked to the UK in search of jobs and a better life. But as racism, unemployment and poor living conditions developed in the 70s, a new generation of UK-based reggae and dancehall artists transformed the music into a major platform for voicing the concerns, struggles and hard, daily reality of life in the UK for black immigrants. Through interviews with David Hinds of ...
Afropop Exclusive Mixtape- Palenque Records
March 18, 2015 22:21 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBLucas Silva, the man behind the always amazing Palenque Records, dropped this dynamite mix of Colombian favorites new, old, and in-between. Dig in! And be sure to check out our interview with Lucas here ==> http://bit.ly/Lucas-Silva-Mix
Bonus Podcast: Zaki Nassif and Sabah
March 12, 2015 19:31 - 14 minutes - 27.4 MBThis special feature is a supplement to the Afropop Worldwide program, “Lebanon 1: Fairuz, A Woman for All Seasons.” The feature introduces two important contemporaries of Fairuz and the Rahbani brothers, namely composer Zaki Nassif and legendary singer Sabah. Want a deeper delve into Lebanese music? This one's for you.
Crabs With Brains: The Mangue Revolution & New Sounds of Recife
March 11, 2015 23:44 - 59 minutes - 108 MBIn the early 1990s, mangueboys and manguegirls stimulated fertility in the veins of Recife, Brazil. They were interested in hip-hop, the collapse of modernity, chaos and marine predator attacks (mainly sharks). Armed with boundless creativity, they turned one of the world's most poverty-stricken cities into one of Brazil's greatest centers of culture. Mangue artists mixed hip-hop, Jamaican ragamuffin and punk rock with styles from Brazil's northeast like maracatu and embolada. In this program...
Hip Deep Lebanon 1: Fairuz, A Woman for All Seasons
March 10, 2015 16:48 - 59 minutes - 108 MB[APWW PGM #671] [Originally aired in 2013] Fairuz is the most popular living singer throughout the Arabic-speaking world and an artist with no real counterpart in Europe or the Americas. Since the ‘50s, she has appealed across boundaries of age, gender, class, religion, nationality, regional dialect, and political persuasion. Creating music as serious and engaged as it is popular, Fairuz—along with her collaborators from the Rahbani family of composer poets—has achieved near-universal appeal...
Sierra Leone: Celebration, War, And Healing
February 16, 2015 23:27 - 59 minutes - 53.9 MB[APWW PGM #552] [Originally aired in 2008] While Sierra Leone is currently in the news for the horrific outbreak of Ebola that has devastated the nation in recent months, the country is no stranger to tragedy. This also means that it has deep reserves of resilience, an ability to come together and overcome great obstacles embedded in its culture. To provide the kind of history that is all too often overlooked when reporting on current events on the African continent, we are encoring this epi...
Afropop Mixtape: New Music from the Brazilian Underground
February 11, 2015 23:27 - 2 hours - 226 MBA playlist of fantastic new tracks from the Brazilian underground, courtesy of Marcelo de Carvalho Monteiro, a Rio-based journalist who writes for Amplificador. Read our interview (and dig into his list of fantastic new bands) here ==> http://bit.ly/Brazilpop Track List: 1. Logun – Metá Metá 2. Gaiola da Saudade – Jam da Silva 3. Dino Vs. Dino – Far From Alaska 4. Lucifernandis – Boogarins 5. Summertime – Luziluzia 6. Sertão Urbano – Carne Doce 7. Você não vai Passar – Ava Rocha 8. Damião –...
The Nature Of Trance
January 29, 2015 16:22 - 59 minutes - 108 MB[APWW #702] In many communities throughout Africa and the diaspora, music and spiritual life are deeply connected through the experience of trance: ritual possession by ancestors, spirits, deities, or simply the trance of communal dancing—usually accompanied by hypnotic melodies and rhythms. In this program, we explore the phenomenon of trance through a survey of musical and spiritual traditions. We'll discover how different cultural and spiritual ideas are expressed musically, and how innova...
Sub - Saharan Cassette Shopping
January 20, 2015 22:05 - 59 minutes - 108 MB[APWW PGM #135] [Originally aired in 1993] We take you back in time with this deliciously retro episode. When cassette tapes hit Africa, they hit hard, offering a whole spectrum of musicians access to recording for the first time. And they really took advantage of it! In this show, Georges Collinet shares some of the finest of these sounds, mixing smoking South African pop, astounding mbalax, and much, much more.
Podcast Special II
January 14, 2015 19:39 - 59 minutes - 108 MB[APWW PGM #701] Once again, we pull together some of our best Web-only podcasts for your listening pleasure. To start off with, we join veteran reporter Marika Partridge on the Washington Mall for highlights from the astounding Kenyan edition of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Then, producer Sam Backer explores the history of the elusive South African producer DJ Spoko in his first-ever international interview. Finally, Banning Eyre takes us back to Madagascar, where we hear the guitar-he...
Malagasy Roots In America
January 07, 2015 22:01 - 21 minutes - 40.1 MBMost African-Americans trace their roots to West or Central Africa. But it turns out that since the 17th century, there has been a trickle of migration--involuntary and voluntary--from Madagascar to the United States. Afropop's Banning Eyre delves into that history with Dr. Wendy Wilson-Fall, who has both lived and studied this fascinating history.
Afropop Live 2014
December 19, 2014 16:49 - 59 minutes - 108 MBOn "Afropop Live 2014," we're playing highlights from some fantastic concerts we saw over the past year. At Montreal's Nuits d'Afrique festival, we caught Chinese reggae band Long Shen Dao, who mix dreadlocks with guzheng (a Chinese zither). Also in Montreal: the Haitian-Canadian band Rara Soley put on a rousing set of songs for celebration and protest. And from Joe's Pub in New York, Wake Up Madagascar raised awareness for deforestation with the sweet sounds of salegy.
Afropop Exclusive Mix: Shamon Cassette- A Mix of Things Nonrelated
December 17, 2014 22:04 - 51 minutes - 72 MBShamon Cassette first landed on our radar with Wave Crusher, the brilliant Afro-futurist electro-rap mixtape he made with Spoek Mathambo. He's back in Brooklyn now, but his experience in South Africa led him to create this exclusive mix for Afropop, which starts with a previously unreleased track from the Wave Crusher sessions. Here's Shamon on "A Mix of Things Nonrelated": "This year, a few months back I maxed out my tourist visa in South Africa and really had the blessings to adapt and be...
Kenya Mambo Poa: Live from the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
December 10, 2014 21:29 - 27 minutes - 50.1 MBIn this special podcast extra, Marika Partridge takes the APWW microphone to the National Mall to record music and stories representing the 42 tribes of Kenya. Kenya and China were featured at the festival. We'll hear the latest from Ayub Ogada, Eric Wainaina, John Nzenze, Winyo and other Kenyan music stars.
The Story Of East African Taarab
December 09, 2014 20:59 - 59 minutes - 53.9 MB[APWW PGM #471] [Originally aired in 2005] The “taarab” music of East Africa’s Swahili coast offers an amazing history lesson. Bantu and coastal Africans, Arabs, Portuguese, Germans, Brits, and Indians all figure in. With guest, anthropologist and author, Kelly Askew, this Hip Deep program explores the taarab music of Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Tanga, and Mombasa, Kenya. The show features rare recordings by the likes of taarab pioneer Siti Bint Saad, groups Babloom Modern Taarab and Tanzania O...
Stocking Stuffers 2014
December 02, 2014 22:18 - 59 minutes - 108 MBAfropop’s annual round up of the hot new releases of 2014. Georges Collinet and Banning Eyre sit down for a music filled survey of African and African diaspora sounds that hit the street this year. Garifuna soul, acoustic and electric roots from Mali and Guinea, Angelique Kidjo, Caetano Veloso, a Mauritanian griot with a voice for the ages, plus new Latin sounds, dancehall, and as many great tunes as these two musical omnivores can cram into an hour of radio. Count on great gift ideas for th...
Soundings: Recordings of African-Americans
November 26, 2014 00:31 - 59 minutes - 53.9 MB[APWW PGM #301] [Originally aired in 2000] The rural south has changed profoundly since it served as the birthplace of blues, and in the intervening years, many of the traditional forms so vital to American musical history have disappeared. It’s lucky then, that the record industry (not to mention some intrepid folklorists) got there before everything changed. This program celebrates the deep and essential sounds they captured on tape, vinyl, acetate, Edison cylinder, and piano roll. You’ll ...
Hip Deep Madagascar: Songs From The North
November 19, 2014 20:29 - 59 minutes - 108 MBSalegy is a churning, harmonious groove with spine-stiffening vocal harmonies that emerged from towns and cities of northern Madagascar in the mid-20th century. On a trip to Diego Suarez, we learn that salegy’s older origins are both fascinating and mysterious. We meet young salegy stars Ali Mourad and Jacs, and speak with the genre’s reigning legend, Jaojoby, on the roof of his nightclub in Antananarivo. Along the way we visit a music school in Diego and hear blazing guitar riffs and get a f...
Podcast- Live From 21st Century Tana
November 17, 2014 22:42 - 56 minutes - 103 MBLess talking, more music! This podcast surveys live recordings Afropop Worldwide made in Antananarivo, Madagascar, in spring 2014. From the frenetic dance grooves of Aly Mourad and Thominot, to the acoustic guitar mastery of D'Gary, Sammy, Johnny, and the jazz-fused Silo, to soulful folkloric performances... It's a full-course musical meal from a spectacular and under-recognized destination.
Afropop Exclusive Mix: Abdala's Experimental Brazil
October 29, 2014 19:11 - 57 minutes - 78.5 MBAbdala tells stories with sounds he captures with a tape recorder from his home and the streets of Goîania, a city in Brazil's center. He also runs Propósito Records, home to some of Brazil's most experimentally-minded artists. Abdala just put out his sixth release of 2014, For Those Who Came From Nothing. To celebrate that prolific accomplishment, he's also put together a mix for Afropop, featuring his own music and songs by other artists from Brazil's new avant-garde. Read our interview w...
Hip Deep In Madagascar: 21st Century Tana
October 23, 2014 17:56 - 1 hour - 116 MBOn this Hip Deep edition, we visit nightclubs, cultural centers, radio stations, and the homes of prominent musicians to take the pulse of Madagascar’s lively highland capital, Antananarivo (Tana). Long the seat of power on the island, Tana is now home to spectacular artists from all the country’s ethnic regions. We’ll hear from rappers, traditional musicians, guitar innovators, veterans like Sammy, Hanitra, and Rossy, and lots of newcomers--also a dance band playing the latest club craze—a f...
Beko And Blues In Southwest Madagascar
October 17, 2014 20:29 - 26 minutes - 48.9 MB[Podcast] - Beko (pronounced BEH-koo) is a ceremonial vocal style performed by various ethnic groups in southwest Madagascar. It has also been an inspiration to successful popular musicians, both for it's blues-like emotional qualities, and its social message. In this "Hip Deep in Madagascar" podcast, we hear from Monika and Lala Njava, singer/songwriter Mikea, and the great Antandroy musician Remanindry.
Fania At 50
October 15, 2014 21:29New York City is home to the earth-shaking Latin dance music known as ‘salsa.’ From the mid 1960s through the 1980s, Fania Records released many of the most important albums in the history of the music, creating a salsa ‘boom’ that provided an outlet for many important musicians to share their contributions with the world. In 2014, Fania celebrated 50 years in the business; and to celebrate, we dug into the label’s history. We’ll hear from some of the principal players, including Aurora Flore...
Ghost Man: DJ Spoko's Bacardi House
October 10, 2014 21:21 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBDJ Spoko, the South African producer behind some of the country's (and maybe the continent's) wildest electronic sounds, has long been something of a mystery. Aside from a few scattered production credits, a handful of Youtube videos, and one solitary EP, it was pretty much impossible to HEAR the guy. That's why we jumped at the chance to interview Spoko about his new album, "War God," which features a full 20 tracks of "pure disease- and pure love." Spoko told us his story, everything from t...
Afropop Exclusive Mix: Peru Bravo! with Tiger's Milk Records
October 08, 2014 22:37 - 35 minutes - 353 MBAfropop Exclusive Mix! Tiger's Milk Records is one of our favorite labels, dishing out a helping of Peruvian tunes as delicious as the ceviche they cook in their award winning restaurants. This mix is compiled to celebrate the release of "Peru Bravo," the label's latest compilation. Connecting the dots between the funk, psych, and rock'n'roll featured on the album with more modern strains of Peruvian music (and a few equally tasty geographic outliers.)It's a terrific journey from start to fin...
Hip Deep in Madagascar: The Tsapiky Story
September 23, 2014 23:39 - 59 minutes - 108 MBThe southwest of Madagascar is a land of fishermen, mining prospectors, and cattle ranchers—not exactly a homogenous region in terms of lifestyle or ethnicity. But one thing that unites all the people of this region is the giddy, electric guitar-driven boogie music known as tsapiky (pronounced tsa-PEEK). Born only in the late 1970s, tsapiky has become the required music at large family ceremonies (circumcisions, weddings and, especially, burials), where music and partying goes nonstop for thr...
Guest Mix: For The Love Of Djazaïr!
September 12, 2014 15:09 - 52 minutes - 101 MBAnd it's guest mix time! For this installment of audio pleasure, we have a selection of Algerian music from the cities of Oran and Algiers compiled for us by Chris Silver, who writes the Jewish Morocco blog. Check out Chris's write-up for the mix here- http://www.afropop.org/wp/20467/guest-mix-for-the-love-of-djazair/ You can also read more of Chris's work here- http://jewishmorocco.blogspot.com/
Bachata Takeover
September 09, 2014 21:49 - 59 minutes - 108 MBWhile bachata may have originated in the Dominican Republic, its growth in popularity over the past 10 years is not rooted within the shores of the small Caribbean nation but in the outer boroughs of New York City. It was here that the now-legendary bachata group Aventura formed. Aventura would go on to change the sound and style of bachata by mixing the style with the rap and r&b they were hearing on the streets of the Bronx. Christened “urban bachata,” the new style has catapulted the genr...
Podcast Special
August 27, 2014 17:54 - 59 minutes - 53.9 MBThis summer, Afropop launched a new and improved podcast, making your favorite world-spanning radio show available in a whole new way. To celebrate, we’ve put together a show featuring some of our favorite moments from the podcast. Previously available only online, these segments are airing for the very first time. We’ll share the story of soul man Geraldo Pino, the “African James Brown.” You’ll hear the musical visions of the eccentric Jamaican guitarist Brushy One String. And much more!
Rio 1- Samba at the Dawn of Modern Brazil Podcast
July 14, 2014 18:50 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBIn part one of our Hip Deep Brazil series, we travel back in time to Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century to explore the birth of Brazil’s most iconic sound: samba. Beginning with the arrival of poor nordestinos in the city after the end of slavery in 1888, we follow the exploits of the early sambistas as they forged the genre that would come to represent the nation. Brazilian scholar Carlos Sandroni shows us how Afro-Brazilian religious music and popular styles like modinha transformed i...
Party and Dissent: World Cup Brazil 2014
June 25, 2014 19:16 - 59 minutes - 108 MB[APWW PGM #689} World Cup mania continues in Brazil. The games are a source of great national pride, as well as bitter dissent due to the fact that billions were spent on stadiums, rather than schools, hospitals and public transport. What does the music community think? We check in with the latest baile funk from Rio’s favelas. Label owner Renato M2 introduces us to a new style–the slowed down Afro-Brazilian tinged rasterhina. In São Paulo, the cosmopolitan city of 20 million where musical i...
Rumba Para Bebo
June 19, 2014 23:32 - 59 minutes - 54 MB[APWW PGM #678] [Originally Aired in 2013] The legendary Cuban pianist / bandleader / composer Ramón "Bebo" Valdés used to say, el día que me muera, no quiero lloradera. Que toquen una rumba, que tomen ron y coman chocolate, y que toquen mi música más bailable. The day I die, I don’t want weeping. Have a rumba, drink rum and eat chocolate, and play my most danceable music. Bebo passed on March 22, 2013 at the age of 94, and to honor his memory in high spirits, Afropop Worldwide producer Ned...
Hip Deep Ghana 2 Podcast: Gospel in Modern Accra
June 16, 2014 22:19 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBWhile other forms of music have switched to digital production, gospel remains as the arena for live music, and as the most popular form of live performance in the city of Accra. In this web exclusive podcast, we explore Ghanaian gospel's popularity in a city with thousands upon thousands of churches.
Afropop Worldwide Summer 2014 Concert Previews PODCAST
June 04, 2014 21:03 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBSummer is always the most active season for African and Diaspora touring artists. We'll clue you into what we think are the best. So wherever you are, enjoy the fun fun fun free open air concerts at Central Park SummerStage, Celebrate Brooklyn, Nuits D'Afrique in Montreal, Concert of Colors in Detroit, Grand Performances in L.A. and more.
Podcast: Kickin' It In Cabo Verde
June 02, 2014 21:16 - 59 minutes - 53.9 MBCabo Verde (also known as Cape Verde) is undeniably a music powerhouse. Despite its small size (population 500,000), the West African archipelago is the third-largest country in music sales in the “World” market by some estimations. That’s why the islands have become home to the Atlantic Music Expo: a trans-oceanic music fair featuring conferences and concerts that attract musicians and industry professionals from across the globe. In this episode, Afropop drops in on the Expo to check out th...
Live from Bongoland: The Story of Tanzania's Music Economy
May 22, 2014 16:30In the 70s and 80s, the east African nation of Tanzania was home to one of the continent's greatest music scenes. But you wouldn't know from the recorded evidence. Join us for this Hip Deep Edition of Afropop Worldwide, as we explore how Tanzania developed a booming music economy without any music industry (and yes- we'll explain what that means), and then how, in the course of a single decade, it developed one of the premier recording industries on the continent. Featuring professor Alex Per...
Afropop Exclusive Mix! Funk Na Caixa, Rasterinha Set
May 16, 2014 19:44 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBAnd this week? We are proud to debut a new mix from Funk Na Caixa. Hi, here is Renato M2 from Funk na Caixa. I recorded this mixtape for friends of Afropop worldwide to show them more about rasterinha, the new trend in baile funk culture. In this mixtape I played: 2 tracks from our vol. 2 of our rasterinha EP - (it's out now, and has 12 tracks) - and another exclusive track from our friend Munchi. He doesn't know when he will release it, but to give you taste of it, I played in exclusive!...
Brushy One String: Music and a Single Vibrating Wire
April 11, 2014 15:55 - 21 minutes - 19.2 MBIn our program "Afropop Live! NYC Musical Metropolis" we featured an excerpt from our interview with Brushy One String, the soulful Jamaican singer/guitarist and youtube star. In this podcast, we go further, discussing Brushy's past, his goals, and the development of his unique musical style. Along the way, we try to explain how just how one string can make so much great music.
Podcast: More Songs of Love and War from Somalia
April 02, 2014 18:48 - 24 minutes - 45.7 MBBanning Eyre presents songs and stories from Somalia's fertile independence era, and up to the present. This podcast is a supplement to Afropop's Hip Deep program "Reconstructiong Somalia, Love Songs at the Birth of a Nation." Somali scholar and former broadcaster Ahmed Ismail Samatar introduces Somali oud virtuoso Hodeidi. Historian Lidwien Kapteijns continues her brilliant and amiable commentary on the love songs in which gender debates played out in the '60s and '70s, and brings the story ...
Dread Inna Inglan: How the UK Took to Reggae
February 12, 2014 20:29 - 108 MBJamaican music journeyed to England in the ‘60s when immigrants from the island flocked to the UK in search of jobs and a better life. But as racism, unemployment and poor living conditions developed in the 70s, a new generation of UK-based reggae and dancehall artists transformed the music into a major platform for voicing the concerns, struggles and hard, daily reality of life in the UK for black immigrants. Through interviews with David Hinds of Steel Pulse, Dennis Bovell, Papa Levi and ma...
Angelique Kidjo: The Roots of "Eve"
February 03, 2014 18:44 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBIn addition to Afropop Worldwide's new show, Benin: Transforming Traditions, we bring you this web exclusive podcast, Angelique Kidjo: The Roots Of Eve, featuring new music and an exclusive interview with the Queen herself. Afropop Worldwide has followed Angelique since she her career first began, and we're always excited to hear what she's up to. Her latest album, Eve, was released on January 28th 2014 by 429 records. It is dedicated to her mother and celebrates African women. Eve features...
Benin - Transforming Traditions
January 29, 2014 23:25 - 59 minutes - 108 MB[APWW PGM #680] [Originally aired in 2014] This program tells the story of generations of creative musicians from Benin who translate traditional, largely Vodun occult music into popular and experimental music. We hear traditional music styles including tchinkoumé, agbadja, and kakagbo, and explore how, starting in the 1970s, Sagbohan Danialou (a singer, drummer, guitarist and composer known as "l'homme orchestre," the one-man-band) and Tohon Stanislas transformed these styles into popular m...
Podcast- Lebanese Factor In Ghanaian Music Podcast
October 02, 2013 21:49 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBDescendants of Lebanese immigrants have had a surprising impact on the development of Ghanaian popular music. This report by Afropop's Banning Eyre digs into the history of the late-60s Afro-rock band, The Psychedelic Aliens, and producer, bandleader, and club owner Faisal Helwani. Helwani's band Hedzoleh Soundz eventually attracted the involvement of South African trumpet legend Hugh Masekela. And Helwani's club, The Napoleon, was the home base for Fela Kuti during his crucial proving year...
Jamaica In New York: The History of Reggae and Dancehall in the Big Apple
September 25, 2013 21:34 - 59 minutes - 108 MB[APWW #672] [Originally aired 2013] New York City has long had a thriving and populous Jamaican community from Crown Heights, Brooklyn to the south Bronx. And as long as Jamaicans have come to the Big Apple they've brought their culture and music along with them. In this musical exposé Afropop producer Saxon Baird susses out the often overlooked NYC Jamaican music scene with interviews from some of its biggest players from Bullwackies in the Bronx to Brooklyn-based dancehall artists like Scre...
Podcast: Zaki Nassif and Sabah
September 04, 2013 23:07 - 14 minutes - 27.4 MBThis special feature is a supplement to the Afropop Worldwide program, “Lebanon 1: Fairuz, A Woman for All Seasons.” The feature introduces two important contemporaries of Fairuz and the Rahbani brothers, namely composer Zaki Nassif and legendary singer Sabah. The images below are of Zaki Nassif’s nephew, Nabil Nassif, and ofthe Zaki Nassif archive at the American University of Beirut. This archive is overseen by Giselle Hebbo, seen here displaying some of the archive contents.
Hip Deep Ghana 2: 21st Century Accra from Gospel to Hiplife
August 01, 2013 16:52 - 59 minutes - 108 MB[APWW #669] [Originally aired 2013] Hiplife--a merger of hip hop and highlife--has come of age, spawning subgenres tilting to roots culture, international rap, and boldly humorous satire, not to mention azonto, a dance craze that has rocketed to global renown in just over a year. But for all that, the biggest-selling music in the country, by far, is gospel. On this whirlwind, Hip Deep tour of Accra, we meet stars like Reggie Rockstone, M.anifiest, Efya, Soul Winners, and the genre-bending FOK...
Ghana 1 Podcast: Geraldo Pino and Fela Kuti in Ghana
July 29, 2013 20:24 - 18 minutes - 16.5 MBThe influence of the James Brown (The Godfather of Soul, Mr. Dynamite, Etc) on the music of Ghana is enormous. In this web-exclusive podcast, producer Banning Eyre, we explore the influence of Brown on an entire generation of Ghanian musicians- a young Fela Kuti included. We also focus on Geraldo Pino, a talented performer who was able to rework Brown's style for a domestic audience. While Kuti and Pino are often depicted as locked in a fierce rivalry, the truth is that the men had a warm fri...
African Sounds of the Indian Subcontinent
May 01, 2013 19:42 - 59 minutes - 108 MB[APWW PGM #663] [Originally aired 2013] AFRICAN SOUNDS OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT African Sounds of the Indian Subcontinent In this Hip Deep program, we explore musical connections between Africa and the Indian subcontinent. First, we hear the story of the Afro-Indian Sidi community. Starting in the 13th century, Africans arrived in India as soldiers in the armies of Muslim conquerors. Some were able to rise through the ranks to become military leaders and even rulers in India. Their des...
The Soul of São Paulo: Rock, Rap and Future Music from the Endless City
December 23, 2012 20:13 - 59 minutes - 108 MB[APWW #654] [Originally aired 2012] In this episode, Afropop Worldwide travels to São Paulo, the 20-million person Brazilian megalopolis, to report on the explosive music scene stirring among the city's cosmopolitan youth. São Paulo is hardly the Brazil you see on the postcards - it's a city of endless high-rises that stretch on into the horizon, covered in colorful graffiti and snarled with traffic. But it's also a place where people, ideas, sounds, and technologies come together and get sc...
Rio 2: Samba Strikes Back
July 26, 2012 03:55 - 59 minutes - 108 MB[APWW #644] [Originally aired 2012] Our second Hip Deep samba show picks up where we left off the story in the 1960s, tracing the rhythm as it transforms and re-appears throughout the many popular music forms that developed in Rio in the later 20th century. Scholar Frederick Moehn, author of a new book titled Contemporary Carioca, shows us how samba's shadow re-appears in the youth music of MPB-stars Pedro Luis and Fernanda Abreu, and how a samba revival led by young artists in the Lapa neigh...