
Hip Deep Fourteen years ago, with support from the NEH, we created Hip Deep, a subseries integrated into the overall Afropop Worldwide program offering. Hip Deep programs build on the techniques and format developed for Afropop Worldwide, but are enhanced by rigorous academic and field research that translates into higher production values. Every episode of Hip Deep actively involves leading humanities scholars to illuminate a wealth of history, culture, politics, ethnic and spiritual contexts. Over 15 years, Hip Deep has produced over 110 humanities-focused programs and a wide range of supplementary Web resources (interviews, videos, text/photo features, podcasts), all easily accessible within the Hip Deep section of our website. Hip Deep amplifies Afropop Worldwide’s longstanding commitment to disseminate humanities themes to the general public through world music via a growing set of media pathways.

Hip Deep August 20, 2015

Hip Deep August 13, 2015

Afropop Classic August 6, 2015

Hip Deep July 23, 2015

Hip Deep June 18, 2015

Afropop Classic June 6, 2015

Afropop Classic May 28, 2015

Afropop Classic May 1, 2015

Afropop Classic April 3, 2015

Hip Deep February 19, 2015

Afropop Classic January 22, 2015

Afropop Classic January 16, 2015

Afropop Classic January 7, 2015

Afropop Classic January 5, 2015

Afropop Classic December 30, 2014

Afropop Classic December 19, 2014

Afropop Classic December 3, 2014

Afropop Classic November 26, 2014

Afropop Classic November 13, 2014

Hip Deep October 29, 2014

Afropop Classic August 27, 2014

Afropop Classic August 21, 2014

Hip Deep August 8, 2014

Afropop Classic July 25, 2014

Afropop Classic June 26, 2014

Afropop Classic June 19, 2014

Afropop Classic April 18, 2014

Afropop Classic March 14, 2014

Hip Deep April 10, 2025

Hip Deep April 3, 2025

Blog April 1, 2025

Hip Deep March 20, 2025

Afropop Classic March 6, 2025

Hip Deep February 25, 2025

Afropop Classic February 20, 2025
Funk is a perennial favorite. In this panoramic history of the grooviest of genres, we hear track after track of absolute boogie-down classics.

Hip Deep February 13, 2025

Afropop Classic February 6, 2025

Blog February 4, 2025

Hip Deep January 30, 2025

Hip Deep January 30, 2025

Hip Deep January 23, 2025

Blog January 21, 2025

Afropop Classic January 16, 2025

Hip Deep January 2, 2025

Hip Deep December 19, 2024
Every year on Sierra Leone’s Independence Day in late April, musicians and revelers descend upon Freetown from throughout the country.

Afropop Classic December 12, 2024

Planet Afropop December 10, 2024

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

Afropop Classic November 28, 2024