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
178 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 program, we travel to Lagos to talk to people there who help us fill in the picture of King Sunny Ade’s earlier career in the 1960s and '70s.
- Added: Sep 20, 2019
- Length: 59:00
On this program, we follow Caribbean steel-pan bands and Haitian rara groups through their preparations for Brooklyn's West Indian Day Parade and C...
- Added: Sep 18, 2019
- Length: 59:00
More than any contemporary jazz artist, Randy Weston understood, honored and explored the roots of American music in Africa.
- Added: Sep 04, 2019
- Length: 59:00
As Afropop Worldwide marks the week of its 30th anniversary on the public airwaves, we take a look at the story that led up to the program’s creation.
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 58:59
In West Africa, women are on the cutting edge of musical and cultural progress. This program looks at four singer/composers with roots in tradition...
- Added: Aug 02, 2019
- Length: 58:58
For some 50 years, Leo Sarkisian was a worldwide staple on the overseas radio broadcast of Voice of America. In recognition of his passing in June,...
- Added: Aug 01, 2019
- Length: 58:59
Exploring the largest Portuguese city's African community and the irresistible music they make.
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 58:59
As the 21st century rolls on, more and more of the musical artists who are making a difference cannot be pinned down to any one national identity.
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 58:58
In this Hip Deep edition, we find out how cumbia left Colombia in the ‘60s and ‘70s and traveled to other countries.
- Added: Jul 10, 2019
- Length: 58:59
This music-rich program features shredding desert-rock axemen and filigree griot guitarists from Niger and Mali, as well as new sounds from the Con...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 58:59
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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