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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.
![Luiz Gonzaga: The King of Baião](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep October 3, 2019
![King Sunny Ade: Hip Deep Portrait](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep September 26, 2019
![The Cumbia Diaspora: From Colombia to the World](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep July 11, 2019
![Lebanon 2: Diasporas](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep December 27, 2018
![Shake It Fo Ya Hood: Bounce, New Orleans Hip-Hop](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep November 1, 2018
![Music and History in The Two Sudans](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep September 20, 2018
![Hip Deep in Northern Nigeria](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep September 13, 2018
![The Nature of Trance](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep June 14, 2018
![Lagos and the Rise of Nigerian Afrobeats](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep May 10, 2018
![Lagos Roots: Fuji, Juju and Apala](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep May 3, 2018
Beneath the gloss of Nigeria’s contemporary pop, older roots styles, mostly derived from Yoruba tradition, still thrive.
![Roots and Future: A History of U.K. Dance](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep March 15, 2018
![Reimagining Jazz in Africa: Cape Town Cosmopolitans and Beyond](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep February 1, 2018
![Hip Deep in Mali: Growing Into Music in 21st Century Bamako](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep January 11, 2018
![Thomas Mapfumo 2: The Mugabe Years](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep December 14, 2017
In recognition of the end of Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule in Zimbabwe, we are rebroadcasting our program on the career of Thomas Mapfumo during the Mugabe years.
![Hip Deep Angola 2: Kuduro and Beyond](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep November 9, 2017
![Hip Deep Angola1: Music and Nation in Luanda](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep November 2, 2017
![Riqueza del Barrio: Puerto Rican Music in the United States](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep October 19, 2017
![Afro-Dominicana: The Other Dominican Republic](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep August 10, 2017
This week, Afropop revisits the home of styles such as merengue and bachata, but this time we’ll be looking towards the most deeply African side of Dominican music—little known outside of the island.
![Proving the Bubu Myth: Janka Nabay, War and Witchcraft in Sierra Leone](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep July 20, 2017
Every year on Sierra Leone’s Independence Day in late April, musicians and revelers descend upon Freetown from throughout the country.
![The Music of Black Peru: Cultural Identity in the Black Pacific](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep March 9, 2017
This Hip Deep edition explores the sonically vibrant realm of Afro-Peruvian music, a young genre identification that has flourished since the 1950s and has now produced artists of international renown, such as singer Susana Baca, and the black folkloric company Peru Negro.
![The French Caribbean--Cosmopolitan, Colonial, Complicated](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep September 15, 2016
![The Tropical Soul of Jorge Ben Jor](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep August 11, 2016
![Rio 1: Samba at the Dawn of Modern Brazil](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep August 4, 2016
![Escaping the Delta](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep July 14, 2016
![Congo-Goma: Music, Conflict and NGOs](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep July 7, 2016
![African Sounds of the Indian Subcontinent](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep November 12, 2015
![The Story of Rai](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep October 15, 2015
![East African Taarab](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep May 30, 2024
![Ethiopia 2: Diaspora and Return](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep May 9, 2024
![Ethiopia Part 1: Empire and Revolution](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep May 7, 2024
![Thomas Mapfumo: The War Years](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep April 11, 2024
Part 1 of Afropop Worldwide's HIp Deep audio biography of Thomas Mapfumo focuses on his upbringing, musical education and the bands that lead up to the Blacks Unlimited. These are the war years, when Zimbabwe was fighting to throw off the burden of the racist Southern Rhodesian regime. This episode documents the birth of "chimurenga" music in the voices of those who made that history, many of whom have now joined the ancestors. Produced by Banning Eyre.
![Black History Month: The Ring and The Shout](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep February 1, 2024
![The Fertile Crescent: Haiti, Cuba and Louisiana](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep January 4, 2024
![Spiritual Journeys: Tarab: The Art of Ecstasy in Arab Music](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep December 21, 2023
![Hip Deep in Mali: The Tuareg Predicament](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep October 12, 2023
![The Musical Legacy of Al Andalus, Part 2: Africa & Beyond](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep August 10, 2023
![The Musical Legacy of Al Andalus, Part 3: Reverberations](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep August 10, 2023
![The Musical Legacy of Al Andalus, Part 1 - Europe](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep July 20, 2023
![The Prehistory of New Orleans Music - Treasures from the Hogan](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep February 16, 2023
![Bangkok After Dark: The Story of Maurice Rocco](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep February 9, 2023
![Egypt 4: Living Traditions](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep February 3, 2022
![Hip Deep Angola 4: The Cuban Intervention in Angola](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep June 10, 2021
![The Money Show](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep May 6, 2021
![The Mighty Amazon](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep November 5, 2020
![Ancient Text Messages: Batá Drums in a Changing World](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep August 13, 2020
![Hip Deep In the Niger Delta](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep July 16, 2020
![Africa and the Blues](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep July 9, 2020
![The Musical Legacy of Al Andalus, Part 1: Europe](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep June 4, 2020
![Diaspora Encounters: The Indo Caribbean World](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep February 20, 2020
![Seize the Dance: The BaAka of Central Africa](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep October 31, 2019
This program will initiate listeners into one of the most enchanting and mysterious musical practices in Africa, BaAka people music.
![Hip Deep in Madagascar: Songs of the North](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep October 24, 2019