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
Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab turned 50 in 2020. We celebrate by looking back at their origins in a Dakar nightclub, their rise, break-up and second l...
- Added: Nov 08, 2022
- Length: 59:00
In this program, we hear the latest from the Nigerian music scene - Naija Pop, Afrobeats, Afropop - and sample action on the Afrobeat and Alté scene.
- Added: Nov 02, 2022
- Length: 58:59
In this episode, we chat with a living legend - Sam Mangwana.
- Added: Oct 26, 2022
- Length: 59:00
In this episode we look back on the iconic career of Papa Wemba, drawing on some 20 years of interviews with the artist, and insights from Congoles...
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 59:00
This Hip Deep program, originally broadcast in 2005, is being repeated in memoriam the pathbreaking historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (1929-2022), who...
- Added: Oct 09, 2022
- Length: 58:59
This program explores some of the complex and shifting dynamics of neocolonialism, cultural ownership and audience in the African vinyl market.
- Added: Oct 05, 2022
- Length: 58:59
Toots Hibbert was a titan of Jamaican popular music. This episode is an homage to Toots, whose incredible career only ended when he tragically died...
- Added: Sep 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
This show updates the Zulu pop music known as maskanda, with a look back at its history and a survey of the current scene--rich musically, but trou...
- Added: Sep 19, 2022
- Length: 59:01
In this episode, we sample a wide range of kora music, and hear tales of its remarkable global journey.
- Added: Sep 11, 2022
- Length: 59:00
On a visit to the U.S. Virgin Islands in winter 2018, we took the pulse of the national music of St. Croix – quelbe.
- Added: Sep 07, 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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