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Kizito Mihigo and the Politics of Music in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Kizito Mihigo is one of Rwanda’s most beloved singers, yet he is currently imprisoned, serving a 10-year sentence for treason. In 2014, Mihigo releas…
8 years, 1 month ago
A Brief History of Funk
Funk is a perennial favorite. In this panoramic history of the grooviest of genres, we hear track after track of absolute boogie-down classics. Every…
8 years, 1 month ago
Night at the Clash
Sound clashes have been a mainstay of reggae culture for decades. Mobile sound system teams face off to see who can best move the crowd with their se…
8 years, 1 month ago
Hip Deep Angola Part 2: Kuduro and Beyond
Join producer Ned Sublette on the streets of Angola’s big, smoggy, oil-booming capital city of Luanda. Peace came to Angola in 2002 after 42 years of…
8 years, 2 months ago
Hip Deep Angola part 1: Music and Nation in Luanda
We explore the role music played in the creation of a uniquely Angolan consciousness as the country struggled toward independence in the 1960s and ‘7…
8 years, 2 months ago
Shackled Love: LGBT Asylum Seekers in the U.K.
Sibo Dube and Maureen Nabisere met inside the U.K.’s most notorious immigrant detention centre, Yarl’s Wood. In the midst of captivity and uncertaint…
8 years, 2 months ago
Lagos and the Rise of Nigerian Afrobeats
Heavy, percussive club beats with irresistible hooks and street-wise raps in Yoruba, Igbo or pidgin English—Nigerian pop music, increasingly known by…
8 years, 2 months ago
Riqueza del Barrio: Puerto Rican Music in the United States
For almost a month, the fate of Puerto Rico and its inhabitants has remained unknown due to the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria during the unu…
8 years, 2 months ago
Black, Greek and Proud: Negros Tou Moria
As Europe closes Greece’s borders in an attempt to stem the seemingly never-ending flow of refugees, immigrant artists are finding it tough to surviv…
8 years, 2 months ago
Remembering Fela
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti would be 79 years old this month, had he not died from complications of AIDS in 1997. By the time of his death, Fela was the inve…
8 years, 3 months ago