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Carnival In Brooklyn
Every September, millions of people celebrate Carnival in Brooklyn. From the pre-dawn J’ouvert bacchanal in the streets, to the intense Panorama stee…
8 years, 10 months ago
New York City's globalFEST 2017
Every January, New York's Webster Hall jams to the music of 12 bands on three stages in one wild night. globalFEST has become an annual kick-off ritu…
8 years, 11 months ago
Two Lions: Bunny Wailer and Hakim
On this program we survey the careers of two giants within their genres. Bunny Wailer is the last surviving member of the original Bob Marley and the…
8 years, 11 months ago
Cuban Counterpoint of Tobacco and Sugar: Sacred Musical Spaces in Western Cuba
Borrowing the title from Cuban polymath Fernando Ortiz, producer Ned Sublette takes a group of travelers, including you, to multiple sites in western…
8 years, 11 months ago
Barbados at 50: Spouge to Soca
Barbados recently celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence. We look into the rise and mysterious fall of the funky Bajan spouge beat which rul…
8 years, 11 months ago
Colombia in NYC
New York City is home to a diverse community of Colombian musicians and groups who create in a wide range of traditional, popular and experimental mu…
8 years, 11 months ago
Hip Deep in Mali: The Tuareg Predicament
The confederations and clans collectively known as the Tuareg descend from the oldest inhabitants of North Africa. They lead a mostly nomadic existen…
9 years ago
Ethiopia Part I: Empire and Revolution
Ethiopia was the first Christian nation in Africa, and the only African country never to be colonized. With ethnomusicologist Kay Kaufman Shelemay an…
9 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…
9 years ago
Political Fiction: Music and Partisan Violence in Jamaica
An Afropop Closeup Encore. Originally distributed on 11/08/2016. The Caribbean island of Jamaica has long been blighted by unacceptably high levels …
9 years ago