Audio Programs – Afropop Classic
Afropop Classic
Afropop Classic June 29, 2023
Mali’s Amadou & Mariam Headline the 25th Afro Roots Fest in Miami
Mali’s Amadou & Mariam Headline the 25th Afro Roots Fest in Miami
Afropop Classic June 1, 2023
Journeys with the Kora
The 21-string harp, the kora, is deeply explored in this Afropop Worldwide program.
Afropop Classic May 24, 2023
Taking the Pulse in Dar Es Salaam 2023
Afropop Worldwide sums up its 2023 visit to Dar Es Salaam, with live music and interviews.
Afropop Classic May 18, 2023
Oromo Music: Historical Memory and Competing Visions in Ethiopia
Oromo Music: Historical Memory and Competing Visions in Ethiopia
Afropop Classic May 11, 2023
Remembering Johnny Clegg
Thirty years of interviews and music from Johnny Clegg, Juluka and Savuka.
Afropop Classic April 13, 2023
Remembering Papa Wemba
This program explores the life and music of Congolese superstar Papa Wemba.
Afropop Classic March 30, 2023
Sauti Za Busara, Sounds of Wisdom 2023
This program samples performances from the Sauti Za Busara festival in Stonetown, Zanzibar, Tanzania, in February 2023.
Afropop Classic March 23, 2023
WOMEX 2022: The Women Rule
WOMEX 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal, featured mostly women-led bands in its African and African diaspora lineup.
Afropop Classic March 9, 2023
Afro Roots Fest 2022 with Daymé Arocena and Sinkane
We hear highlights from the 2022 Afro-Roots Fest in Miami featuring Dayme Arocena and Sinkane.
Afropop Classic January 26, 2023
Béco’s Brazil: New Sounds for 2023
Brazilian broadcaster, producer and music aficionado Béco Dranoff returns to Afropop Worldwide with a set of great new music from South America’s music cauldron.
Afropop Classic January 19, 2023
Afro-Tech: Stories of Synths in African Music
In this episode, we explore the synthesizer, looking closely at the history of this ubiquitous (and often debated) piece of musical technology, and investigating how and why it was first used in a variety of African musics.
Afropop Classic January 5, 2023
From Haiti to the World
From Paris to New Orleans and Boston, Haitian musicians are shaking up the music scene.
Afropop Classic December 29, 2022
Visit To Afro-Sweden
Over the past 60 years, a number of musicians from Africa and its diaspora have come to base themselves, or have been born, in Sweden.
Afropop Classic December 22, 2022
New Africa, 2022
Afropop asks artists what new things they discovered in music in 2022.
Afropop Classic September 29, 2022
Never Grow Old - A Salute to Toots Hibbert Playlist
Never Grow Old Playlist: A Salute To Toots And The Maytals
Afropop Classic September 29, 2022
Never Grow Old - A Salute to Toots and the Maytals
Toots Hibbert was a titan of Jamaican popular music. With his harmony group the Maytals he indelibly changed the island’s music scene in the early 1960s by infusing ska with gospel and went on to captivate overseas audiences by blending blues and funk with reggae, becoming one of Jamaica’s best-known performers.
Afropop Classic September 22, 2022
South African Roots in the 21st Century
South African Roots in the 21st Century
Afropop Classic September 1, 2022
The Gqom Generation of Durban, South Africa
Latests music craze stimulated by taxis to hit South African called Gqom. For the past seven years, a technologically savvy teen generation in Durban, KwaZulu Natal.
Afropop Classic August 26, 2022
The Story Of Gumbe
The square gumbe frame drum was created centuries ago by enslaved Africans in Jamaica.
Afropop Classic August 18, 2022
Nuits D'Afrique in Montreal: 2022
This program features live highlights and interviews from the Nuits D'Afrique festival in Montreal, 2022.
Afropop Classic June 30, 2022
Dakar Muse
Dakar Muse" takes us to one of the most exciting musical cities in Africa. We'll meet young stars on the Mbalax scene, Senegal's national music
Afropop Classic May 16, 2022
Bomba, Plena and Puerto Rican Protest Music
Puerto Rican protest songs over the past two centuries
Afropop Classic May 6, 2022
GC's DJ Road Show: Béco's Brazil
Georges co-hosts with Béco Dranoff in Sao Paulo for a survey of new music from Brazil.
Afropop Classic February 24, 2022
The Black History of Tap Dancing
Afropop Classic February 17, 2022
The S Factor
In this episode of Afropop Worldwide, WOWD’s Jolly Papa Radio (Eme Awa and Michael Shereikis) along with Afrobeats stars Wunmi Olaiya, Seun Olata, David Dzizonou and more try to extricate an answer out of this prickly question: What Is The S Factor separating Afrobeat and Afrobeats?
