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Black History Month: The Black History of the Banjo
This program traces the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and i…
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Black History Month: The Black History of Tap Dancing
Foundational for Broadway and the movies, intertwined with jazz, tap dancing is a Great American Art. Strap on your shoes and shuffle along as we tra…
2 years, 1 month ago
Planet Afropop - Syli D’Or Winners And Artists For Aid
Every winter, starting in February, the organizers of the annual Nuits D’Afrique festival put on a battle of the Afropop bands. Bands face off, three…
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Black History Month: The Ring and The Shout
This Hip Deep episode presents the stunning radio premiere of "Oh, David," the traditional song of the annual Easter Rock in Winnsboro, Louisiana. Th…
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Afropop Cover Songs
In today’s pop music, everybody is a composer. But what about the classics? The songs that last? In this program we survey African musicians reinterp…
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Planet Afropop - Moh! Kouyate: A Conversation with a Global Griot
Moh Kouyate is a Guinean guitarist/singer/songwriter descending from a line of griots (jalis) in West Africa. As listeners heard in the Afropop World…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Nyege Nyege Villa - East African Hub of the Electronic Music Underground
In 2018, the renowned music journal Fact boldly claimed that “the world’s best electronic music festival is in Uganda.” In only a few years, Nyege Ny…
2 years, 2 months ago
Calypso, Reggae and Jab-Jab Soca: Musical Resistance in Grenada
Calypso and reggae have been mainstays of Grenada’s musical culture, until the emergence of the distinctive Carnival-based offshoot known as jab-jab …
2 years, 2 months ago
Planet Afropop - A Conversation with Okwy Osadebe
Okwy Osadebe is the son of Nigerian Igbo highlife legend Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe. In this lively conversation with Georges Collinet and Eme Awa, …
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The Fertile Crescent of Music: Haiti, Cuba, and New Orleans
In 1809, the population of New Orleans doubled almost overnight because of French-speaking refugees from Cuba. You read that right-- French-speaking …
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