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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 …
3 years, 3 months ago
Reissued - African Vinyl In The 21st Century
The golden age of vinyl records is long past in Africa, but the market for rare and reissued African vinyl outside the continent has been growing ste…
3 years, 3 months ago
Suso: Gambia's Global Griots
Suso: Gambia's Global Griots by Afropop Worldwide
3 years, 3 months ago
Never Grow Old - A Salute to Toots and the Maytals
Toots Hibbert was a titan of Jamaican popular music. With his harmony group the Maytals he indelibly changed the island’s music scene in the early 19…
3 years, 3 months ago
South African Roots in the 21st Century
Yes, it’s the age of South African House, Afrobeats, Afro R&B and the likes, but roots music lives on in South Africa. This show updates the Zulu pop…
3 years, 3 months ago
Mauritius’s Sega Roots
The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius is perhaps best known for sandy beaches and, recently, a catastrophic oil spill. It is also home to a unique fol…
3 years, 4 months ago
Quelbe - Hidden Treasure Of The Caribbean
On a visit to the U.S. Virgin Islands in winter 2018, we took the pulse of the national music of St. Croix – quelbe. Rarely recorded, rarely exported…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Gqom Generation of Durban, South Africa
The latest music craze to hit South African dance floors is a dark, pulsating and energetic sound called gqom. For the past seven years, a young and …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Story Of Gumbe
The square gumbe frame drum was created centuries ago by enslaved Africans in Jamaica. It traveled to Sierra Leone with freed Maroons from Jamaica’s …
3 years, 4 months ago
Afrobeats By The Bay
When Ugandan American writer and producer Jessica Kariisa moved to the San Francisco Bay Area early in 2022, she did not expect to find a thriving Af…
3 years, 4 months ago