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 13, 2020
Hip Deep July 16, 2020
Hip Deep July 9, 2020
Hip Deep February 20, 2020
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 October 24, 2019
Hip Deep October 3, 2019
Hip Deep September 26, 2019
Hip Deep December 27, 2018
Hip Deep September 20, 2018
Hip Deep September 13, 2018
Hip Deep June 14, 2018
Hip Deep May 10, 2018
Hip Deep May 3, 2018
Beneath the gloss of Nigeria’s contemporary pop, older roots styles, mostly derived from Yoruba tradition, still thrive.
Hip Deep March 15, 2018
Hip Deep February 1, 2018
Hip Deep January 11, 2018
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 November 9, 2017
Hip Deep November 2, 2017
Hip Deep October 19, 2017
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.
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.
Hip Deep September 15, 2016
Hip Deep August 11, 2016
Hip Deep August 4, 2016
Hip Deep February 13, 2025
Hip Deep January 30, 2025
Hip Deep January 30, 2025
Hip Deep January 23, 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.
Hip Deep October 10, 2024
Hip Deep September 5, 2024
Hip Deep August 15, 2024
Hip Deep July 4, 2024
Hip Deep June 20, 2024
Hip Deep May 30, 2024
Hip Deep May 9, 2024
Hip Deep May 7, 2024
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.
Hip Deep February 1, 2024
Hip Deep January 4, 2024
Hip Deep December 21, 2023
Hip Deep October 12, 2023
Hip Deep August 10, 2023
Hip Deep August 10, 2023
Hip Deep July 20, 2023
Hip Deep February 16, 2023
Hip Deep February 9, 2023
Hip Deep February 3, 2022
Hip Deep June 10, 2021
Hip Deep May 6, 2021
