Afropop Worldwide

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  • 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.

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179 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.

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In Morocco today, artists draw from a huge variety of styles and traditions, creating music that takes from previously neglected history in order t...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:59

  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Portrait of a young black woman, seated, holding nine string banjo , Credit: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
We trace the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and into the p...

Bought by KTOO, WSLR, KRCU Public Radio, KSUT, WVTF and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 27
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We explore the rich period in the 1970s when soul flourished in Brazil.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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Our Hip Deep edition “A Tale of Two Rebellions,” recounts the stories of two remarkable military campaigns in early Islamic history.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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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.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
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Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian musical giants have long enjoyed the spotlight, yet throughout Latin America there are other black enclaves producing...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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Combining historical, religious, literary and musical passions, Umm Kulthum inspired an enduring sense of Egyptian national pride and left a legacy...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
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For all those stuck at home or stressed out during these uncertain times, here’s an hour of uplifting music from Mali, Cuba and South Africa.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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In their annual tradition, Georges Collinet and Banning Eyre take stock of the year’s offerings, covering an ever-growing array of styles and artis...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:59