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Bangkok After Dark: The Story of Maurice Rocco
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 a…
2 years, 11 months ago
The African American String Music Tradition
There’s been a lot of speculation about the chain of musical events that link the blues back to Africa. Most of that chain is unrecorded and shrouded…
2 years, 11 months ago
Béco’s Brazil: New Sounds for 2023
Brazilian broadcaster, producer and music aficionado Béco Dranoff returns to Afropop Worldwide with a set of great new music from South America’s mus…
2 years, 11 months ago
Afro-Tech: Stories of Synths in African Music
Technology is one of the great drivers of musical change, and often one of its least understood. In this episode, we explore the synthesizer, looking…
2 years, 11 months ago
Amapiano To The World
South Africa is one of the biggest dance music nations, and now it seems like the whole world is dancing along to its amapiano (piano/yanos) beats, a…
3 years ago
From Haiti To The World
From Paris to New Orleans and Boston, Haitian musicians are shaking up the music scene. The island’s powerful Africa-rooted culture—from celebratory …
3 years ago
A Visit To Afro-Sweden
Afro-Sweden? Who knew? Over the past 60 years, a number of musicians from Africa and its diaspora have come to base themselves, or have been born, in…
3 years ago
New Africa - 2022
This year, we are launching a new tradition: a year-end episode that looks forward rather than back. We’ll ask artists and others to tell us about so…
3 years ago
Ghana - Celebration Sounds
In hard times and boom times, people in Ghana know how to party. In this program, we hear the regional pop and neotraditional music that animates fes…
3 years ago
Afropop Women Of Note
DJ Kix returns by taking us on a musical journey across Africa, showcasing some of the continent’s formidable women who are quickly rising in the ind…
3 years, 1 month ago