Afropop Classic
Afropop Classic December 5, 2024
Paris has been one of the most important incubators of African music on the planet. On this program, we look back on 30 years of adventures with African music in Paris.
Afropop Classic December 5, 2024
Pan African Orchestra Baobab, West Africa to the Afro-Cuban style of the time, the Orchestra Baobab is returning to to be a top African band.
Afropop Classic November 28, 2024
Meira Goldberg, Miguel Angel Rosales, Raul Rodriguez and Yinka Esi Graves explore the African pre-history and subsequent blackness of flamenco music and dance.
Afropop Classic November 7, 2024
Eric Wainaina takes us through a tour of current artists in Nairobi, Kenya.
Afropop Classic October 24, 2024
This episode revisits the famed music festival Soul2Soul at its 50th anniversary and explores the longstanding legacy of cultural exchange with African diasporans originally set forth in the 1950s by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana.
Afropop Classic September 19, 2024
Afropop Classic September 12, 2024
The Sound of New York Latin Music" takes a deep sonic dive into the great New York Latin discography, with host Georges Collinet and guest host Ned Sublette
Afropop Classic August 22, 2024
Afropop Classic August 8, 2024
Afropop Classic July 25, 2024
The life and legacy of Foutanga Babani Sissoko, Baba Sora, is explored through reminiscences and music.
Afropop Classic July 18, 2024
Special guest Dr. Ivor Miller, back from a 2021 research trip to Cameroon, takes us into the complexities of south Cameroonian spiritual tradition and its connection to the Cuban Abakuá secret society for men, featuring Abakuá-themed music from Cuba, ceremonial music from Cameroon, and Batanga pop by Chief Eko Roosevelt, Pablo Gabbana, and Emily Sadey.
Afropop Classic June 27, 2024
This show showcases Afropop Worldwide's recording of Youssou N'Dour and Le Super Etoile live at the Ritz in New York in 1989.
Afropop Classic June 13, 2024
This is part two of the Afropop series on the Imazighen, the original inhabitants of North Africa.
Afropop Classic June 6, 2024
Berber history and music span from ancient sounds from the Atlas and Kabyle mountains to the latest pop fusions. In this, the first of Afropop’s Berber music series, we get the history and hear some of the extraordinary music that history has given us. Produced by Banning Eyre.
Afropop Classic May 23, 2024
Fay Fay in Lagos reports on artists breaking into the Afrobeats music industry.
Afropop Classic May 2, 2024
South Africa is one of the biggest dance music nations, and now it seems like the whole world is dancing along to its amapiano (piano/yanos) beats, a genre that blends its kwaito roots with house, jazz and its signature log drum.
Afropop Classic April 25, 2024
The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation recorded a goldmine of local music in the 1960s and 70s, but the tapes were neglected and close to ruined.
Afropop Classic April 18, 2024
A special recording from the Afropop archives finds Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited playing at SOB's in New York City back in 1991.
Afropop Classic April 4, 2024
Country music is big in Kenya. This show tells the story.
Afropop Classic March 28, 2024
Umm Kulthum has been called the greatest singer in the Arabic speaking world in the 20th century.
Afropop Classic March 21, 2024
Angelique Kidjo, Toshi Reagon, Shungudzo, Toshi Reagon and Fatoumata Diawara showcase activist music created during the pandemic.
Afropop Classic March 7, 2024
Rimitti would have been 100 in 2023 - and yet the Algerian diva is still praised and remixed by a young new generation of artists. In this episode, we’ll journey through Rimitti’s rocky life and we’ll meet her musical progeny.
Afropop Classic February 29, 2024
DJ Kix returns by taking us on a musical journey across Africa, showcasing some of the continent’s formidable women who are quickly rising in the industry and making their presence known.
Afropop Classic February 22, 2024
This program looks back on the history of African American string band music with Howard Armstrong.
Afropop Classic February 15, 2024
We trace the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and into the present, as a new generation of Black women artists reclaim the banjo as their own. Rhiannon Giddens, Bassekou Kouyate, Bela Fleck and more talk claw-hammers, trad jazz, Appalachian folk, African ancestors and the on-going story of American music, which would be woefully incomplete without a Black history of the banjo.
Afropop Classic January 18, 2024
The Nyege Nyege Villa - East African Hub of Electronic Underground Music
Afropop Classic January 11, 2024
Calypso, Reggae and Jab-Jab Soca: Musical Resistance in Grenada.
Afropop Classic December 28, 2023
Randy Weston, a jazz icon, uniquely embraced and delved into the profound ties between American music roots and African heritage, solidifying his legacy as a trailblazer who passionately bridged cultures and musical traditions.
Afropop Classic December 14, 2023
This program explores Shona mbira music from Zimbabwe through a historic 1999 U.S. tour by the Mbira Masters of Zimbabwe, organized by Paul Berliner.
