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Diaspora Encounters: The Indo-Caribbean World
Competition between communities of Indian and African descent has been a mainstay of politics and culture in the former British colonies of Trinidad …
5 years, 10 months ago
Aurelio Badian Damily And The Kid From Timbuktu
This guitar-focused program presents a series of mostly acoustic sessions with Garifuna star Aurelio Martinez, griot guitar master Aboubacar "Badian"…
5 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…
5 years, 11 months ago
Discover and Record: The Field Recordings of Hugh Tracey
In this Hip Deep edition, Afropop producer Wills Glasspeigel heads to South Africa to reveal the story of the inimitable Hugh Tracey, a field recordi…
5 years, 11 months ago
Cape Verde Sounds - Heard And Unheard
On a 2018 return visit to the archipelago of Cape Verde, we find all sorts of fresh musical activity, global and local. We hear some spectacular youn…
5 years, 11 months ago
The Afro Roots Festival in Miami
We go to Miami to enjoy highlights from the 21st annual Afro Roots Fest at the North Beach Bandshell. Co-headliners are the sublime griot singer Nour…
6 years ago
Here Comes 2020
While others look back on 2019 and the decade of the 2010s, Georges Collinet and Banning Eyre choose instead to look ahead to the 2020s in their annu…
6 years ago
Luiz Gonzaga The King of Baiao
Sweet accordion riffs, the steady twang of the triangle, and the off-beat pounding of the zabumba drum make forro a favorite for all Brazilians. The …
6 years, 3 months ago
Carnival in Brooklyn
On this program, we follow Caribbean steel-pan bands and Haitian rara groups through their preparations for Brooklyn's West Indian Day Parade and Car…
6 years, 3 months ago
Bolsonaro Is and Isn't
If Americans hear about Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro at all, he's usually described as a "Brazilian Donald Trump." But on this week's CloseUp, w…
6 years, 4 months ago