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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"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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PRX’s Afropop Worldwide is helping stations celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 (Sept. 15-Oct. 15) with a specially curated selection of four episodes. They spotlight: party-happy cumbia from Colombia and the pan-Latin world; bugalú (or “Latin soul”) a music style that stormed New York City in 1966; bachata which began as a kind of workingman’s blues from the Dominican Republic before exploding as an international sensation; and profiles of the legendary Beny Moré (Cuba) and Ismael Rivera (Puerto Rico) who are both national treasures. Si, se puede!

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Caption: Papa Wemba
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: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Steve Rogers
In this episode, we trace the history of country music in Kenya, dating back to the 1920s and 30s when local populations first heard Jimmie Rodgers...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Stonetown, Zanzibar, Credit: Banning Eyre
Sauti Za Busara means “Sounds of Wisdom.” That gives a clue to the music heard at the annual Sauti Za Busara festival in Stonetown, Zanzibar. It’s ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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
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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
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The Afro-Roots Fest is Florida’s state-wide celebration of Africa’s global musical heritage.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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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
Caption: Cheikha Rimitti
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
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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
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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