Afropop Worldwide
567 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 290 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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Episodes
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...
Msafiri Zawose: Bringing Wagogo Roots to US
June 21, 2012 19:45 - 9 minutes - 8.36 MBIn the late spring of 2012, Hukwe's son Msafire Zawose--in every way a chip off the old block--brought his family's musical legacy from Tanzania to the US. Afropop caught a midnight acoustic set at Barbes in Brooklyn, and quickly arranged an interview. Hear the results from our conversation and clips from the live show.
"What's Next for Egyptian Music?" The Rise of Rap & Electro-Sha'bi
April 26, 2012 02:29 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBWrapping up Afropop's Hip Deep series on Egypt, Banning Eyre asks "What Next for Egyptian Music?" To supplement part 5, "Revolution Songs," this podcast focuses on the roots of Egyptian rap, and its surging popularity after the revolution. The future of music in Egypt may be the fusion of rap and another surging, young genre, electro-sha'bi.
Crate-Diggers and Remixers
March 28, 2012 20:46 - 54 MB[APWW #636] [Originally aired 2012] A vast, new world of DJs, record collectors and producers are going to far reaches of the Earth to find forgotten records and new styles of music. Their discoveries are then brought back home, remixed, repackaged and re-released to be heard by an entirely new audience. We speak to some of these globetrotting DJ and producers Chief Boima and Geko Jones to hear about their experiences, the music they’ve discovered and how they go about remixing some of these...
Exclusive Podcast: The Ecstasy of a Sufi Moulid
March 26, 2012 15:21 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBAfropop visits a sufi moulid celebration in Upper Egypt and delves into the history of sufi celebration and culture in Egypt.