Afropop Worldwide | Audio Programs

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 May 6, 2021

The Money Show

Afropop Classic October 1, 2020

SXSW 2020: A Virtual Showcase

Hip Deep August 13, 2020

Ancient Text Messages: Batá Drums in a Changing World

Hip Deep July 16, 2020

Hip Deep In the Niger Delta

Hip Deep April 16, 2020

Edo Highlife: Culture, Politics and Progressive Traditionalism

Afropop Classic April 2, 2020

With Feet in Many Worlds

Afropop Classic March 12, 2020

Afropop at South by Southwest 2019

Afropop Classic February 6, 2020

Afro-Tech: Stories of Synths in African Music

Afropop Classic January 9, 2020

Reissued: African Vinyl in the 21st Century

Afropop Classic December 19, 2019

Here Comes 2020

Afropop Classic August 15, 2019

Afropop Worldwide: The Origin Story

Closeup July 9, 2019

Afropop Goes to the Grammys

Afropop Classic November 29, 2018

The Best of Afropop Closeup Season 3

Afropop Classic November 8, 2018

Sounds Like Brooklyn

Afropop Classic June 7, 2018

African Music at the Crossroads

Afropop Classic May 31, 2018

All That Brass

Hip Deep May 10, 2018

Lagos and the Rise of Nigerian Afrobeats

Hip Deep May 3, 2018

Lagos Roots: Fuji, Juju and Apala

Beneath the gloss of Nigeria’s contemporary pop, older roots styles, mostly derived from Yoruba tradition, still thrive.

Closeup February 6, 2018

What’s in a Nigerian Name?

Hip Deep February 1, 2018

Reimagining Jazz in Africa: Cape Town Cosmopolitans and Beyond

Afropop Classic December 21, 2017

The (New) Sound Of Afro Paris

In this program, we explore the new "Afropolitan" sounds of Paris, from concert halls to studios, from the heart of the city to immigrant neighborhoods in the banlieues.

Closeup December 12, 2017

Biafra at 50: A Wound That Does Not Heal

We examine how the unresolved issues that triggered the devastating Biafran War in the 1960s still resonate and persist in the Niger Delta today on this Afropop Closeup.