Afropop Worldwide
- Location: Brooklyn, New York
"Afropop Worldwide" is America's first and longest-lived weekly program on the music of Africa and the African Diaspora.
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Special episodes from Peabody Award-winning weekly program Afropop Worldwide, focusing on music from Africa and the African diaspora.
- From: Afropop Worldwide
- Updated: Feb 17, 2021
175 Pieces
"Afropop Worldwide" is America's first and longest-lived weekly program on the music of Africa and the African Diaspora. NOTE: This program is available to PRI affiliates. For more information please email memberships@prx.org.
- From: Afropop Worldwide
- Updated: Jul 25, 2022
- From: Afropop Worldwide
- Updated: Feb 17, 2021
Pieces
In this episode we meet Selma Uamusse from Mozambique and Portugal, Djazia Satour from Algeria and France, Pilani Bubu from South Africa, and hear ...
- Added: Mar 18, 2023
- Length: 59:00
The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation recorded a goldmine of local music in the 1960s and 70s, but the tapes were neglected and close to ruined when ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2023
- Length: 59:01
The Afro-Roots Fest is Florida’s state-wide celebration of Africa’s global musical heritage.
- Added: Mar 09, 2023
- Length: 59:01
In this program we survey African musicians reinterpreting each other’s songs, as well as songs from far outside their traditions.
- Added: Feb 26, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Cheikha Rimitti was certainly a queen. For some, she was the queen of raï, which means “opinion" in Arabic. For others, she was the queen of freedo...
- Added: Feb 22, 2023
- Length: 58:59
This program tells the story of how jazz emerged in the context of all the other African American musics that proliferated in late 19th and early 2...
- Added: Feb 14, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Jazz pianist Maurice Rocco was a star of American nightclubs and Hollywood films in the 1930s-40s, playing in an ecstatic, stand-up style that left...
- Added: Feb 07, 2023
- Length: 59:00
There’s been a lot of speculation about the chain of musical events that link the blues back to Africa. Most of that chain is unrecorded and shroud...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Brazilian broadcaster, producer and music aficionado Béco Dranoff returns to Afropop Worldwide with a set of great new music from South America’s m...
- Added: Jan 23, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In this episode, we explore the synthesizer, looking closely at the history of this ubiquitous (and often debated) piece of musical technology, and...
- Added: Jan 18, 2023
- Length: 59:00
People who work with Afropop Worldwide
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Kyle Lerfald (Admin)
Distribution Manager/Broadcast |
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Roger Gomoll
Contractor On-Air Fundraising |
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Michael Jones (Admin)
Chief Audio Engineer of Afropop Worldwide |
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Banning Eyre (Admin)
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Zubin Hensler (Admin)
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Mukwae Siyolwe (Admin)
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