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South African Roots In The 21st Century
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 …
5 years, 8 months ago
Rap, Reggae and Cultural Resistance in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Belo Horizonte is Brazil’s sixth largest city and including its surrounding districts, the country’s third largest metropolitan area. The capital of …
5 years, 8 months ago
Accounting for Taste: Dire Straits, Jim Reeves, and Death Metal in Africa
When we talk about the influence of American performers on African music, we usually think about a few obvious examples, legends like Michael Jackson…
5 years, 8 months ago
Edo Highlife: Culture, Politics And Progressive Traditionalism
Highlife—West Africa’s pioneer popular music of the late colonial and independence periods—has mostly faded from popularity in 21st century Nigeria. …
5 years, 8 months ago
SxSW Virtual Showcase
The cancellation of South by Southwest was one of the early shocks in the global coronavirus pandemic. Countless artists, fans, vendors, nightclub ow…
5 years, 9 months ago
With Feet In Many Worlds
more of the musical artists who are making a difference cannot be pinned down to any one national identity.Migration, intermarriage, and the hurly bu…
5 years, 9 months ago
810 GlobalFEST 2020
New York City's globalFEST is a landmark musical event every January, a sonic feast featuring 12 artists on three stages in a single winter night. In…
5 years, 9 months ago
A History Of Puerto Rican Salsa
The first time Puerto Rican bandleader Willie Rosario heard the word salsa applied to the Cuban-style music he played was in Venezuela, where DJ Phid…
5 years, 9 months ago
801 Afropop At SxSW 2019
In 2019, Afropop Worldwide hosted a stage at South by Southwest in Austin, TX, for the first time. Our lineup featured innovative new sounds out of A…
5 years, 10 months ago
Voodoo To Go Festival
Producer Morgan Greenstreet follows the trail of West African Vaudou spiritual music to a very unlikely place–Utrecht, Netherlands–for the first edit…
5 years, 10 months ago