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Africa Now! 2016
Every year, the world-famous Apollo Theater and New York’s World Music Institute pack the house for a stellar lineup of established and emerging arti…
9 years ago
Stocking Stuffers 2016
Georges Collinet and Banning Eyre survey the best African and African diaspora music of 2016: from desert blues to Afrobeats and neo-cumbia, vintage …
9 years, 1 month ago
Soundin' Like Weself - The Trinidadian Raspo Tradition
Producer Jake Hochberger brings us to the southernmost island in the Caribbean, Trinidad. Trinidad is the birthplace of the steel drum, calypso and s…
9 years, 1 month ago
Afrobeats Comes To America
Afrobeats is the new urban music of Africa. Not to be confused with the funky sound of the ‘70s in Nigeria (Afrobeat), Afrobeats (with an "s") is 21s…
9 years, 1 month ago
Salaam, Amani, Peace: Festivals in Goma, DR Congo
In a context of ongoing violence and N.G.O. intervention in Eastern Congo, a festival culture is emerging based on the concept of “peace-building” th…
9 years, 1 month ago
Afropop Live! 2016
The crowd grows restless until finally the lights go down and the artist takes the stage, and that's when things come alive. It's “Afropop Live! 2016…
9 years, 1 month ago
The Cumbia Diaspora: From Colombia to the World
Move over salsa and merengue–cumbia is the most popular music in Latin America. Today, cumbia is played from the borderlands of Texas down the spine …
9 years, 2 months ago
Political Fiction: Music and Partisan Violence in Jamaica
The Caribbean island of Jamaica has long been blighted by unacceptably high levels of politically motivated violence, a nightmarish by-product of its…
9 years, 2 months ago
Growing Into Music in 21st Century Bamako
This program presents a musical portrait of Bamako in the wake of crisis. In 2012-13, Islamists occupied the north and a coup d’etat threatened a rec…
9 years, 2 months ago
Moroccan Music Today: Re-Examined Past, Innovative Future
In Morocco today, artists draw from a huge variety of styles and traditions, creating music that takes from previously neglected history in order to …
9 years, 2 months ago