Ben Richmond

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Recent Pieces from Ben Richmond

Caption: Portrait of a young black woman, seated, holding nine string banjo, Credit: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

828: Black History Month: The Black History of the Banjo, 2/15/2024 (59:00)
From: Afropop Worldwide

This program traces the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and into the present, as a new ...
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851: Black History Month: The Black History of Tap Dancing, 2/8/2024 (59:00)
From: Afropop Worldwide

Strap on your shoes and shuffle along as we trace the history of tap and celebrate the Black artists and innovators who built--and continue to build--this art form.
Caption: Portrait of a young black woman, seated, holding nine string banjo, Credit: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Black History Month: The Black History of the Banjo (59:00)
From: Afropop Worldwide

This program traces the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and into the present, as a new ...
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Black History Month: The Black History of Tap Dancing (59:00)
From: Afropop Worldwide

Strap on your shoes and shuffle along as we trace the history of tap, the most American form of dance.
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822: The Mighty Orchestra Baobab, 11/10/2022 (59:00)
From: Afropop Worldwide

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 life in the 21st century - ...
Caption: Portrait of a young black woman, seated, holding nine string banjo , Credit: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

The Black History of the Banjo (59:00)
From: Afropop Worldwide

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 present, as a new generation ...
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799: globalFEST 2019, 2/21/2019 (59:00)
From: Afropop Worldwide

New York’s annual celebration of cultural music was back with a vengeance at the Copacabana.
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793: The Best of Afropop Closeup Season 3, 11/29/2018 (58:59)
From: Afropop Worldwide

From an interview with the pioneering feminist Calypso Rose, to a homegrown music scene outside Lisbon, to the story of a mysterious kidnapping of a musical legend, we're ...