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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Miami’s Afro Roots Fest is back on stage at the North Miami Beach Bandshell. Mostly. The 2021 edition featured live performances by Afro-Nicaraguan...

  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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With C. Daniel Dawson and Angolan composer and musicologist Victor Gama, we’ll explore Kongo-Ngola culture in the diaspora – in Brasil, Haiti, Cuba...

  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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In this episode we look at the business side of African music, through a series of vignettes from around the continent and diaspora that illuminate...

  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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When you think punk, a few locations tend to come to mind- New York, London, LA. But Durban? Jo’Burg? South Africa? In this program, we are takin...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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The island of Hispaniola, located in the western Caribbean, is divided in two by an invisible line that snakes down its central mountain range. On ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Bunny Wailer and Hakim
On this program we survey the careers of two giants within their genres: Bunny Wailer from Jamaica and Hakim from Egypt.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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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: 4
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...

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  • 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