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
176 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
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
Amapiano is proving to be a genre that has both depth and breadth, but is it here to stay? We tackle this question, and explore how this homegrown ...
- Added: Jan 09, 2023
- Length: 59:00
From Paris to New Orleans and Boston, Haitian musicians are shaking up the music scene.
- Added: Dec 31, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Afro-Sweden? Who knew? Over the past 60 years, a number of musicians from Africa and its diaspora have come to base themselves, or have been born, ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Afropop is launching a new tradition: a year-end episode that looks forward rather than back. We’ll ask artists and others to tell us about somethi...
- Added: Dec 21, 2022
- Length: 59:00
In hard times and boom times, people in Ghana know how to party. In this program, we hear the regional pop and neotraditional music that animates f...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 59:00
In this addition, DJ Kix returns by taking us on a musical journey across Africa, showcasing some of the continent’s formidable women who are quick...
- Added: Dec 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Strap on your shoes and shuffle along as we trace the history of tap, the most American form of dance.
- Added: Nov 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
In this program, we hear how traditional Manding (Mande) griots living in France spread their messages to the world by blending European music with...
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- 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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