
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.

Planet Afropop June 25, 2024
Planet Afropop wraps up Season 1 with Noise Cans, The Swanky Kitchen Band and top picks in new releases

Hip Deep June 20, 2024

Afropop Classic June 13, 2024

Afropop Classic June 6, 2024

Hip Deep May 30, 2024

Afropop Classic May 23, 2024

Hip Deep May 9, 2024

Hip Deep May 7, 2024

Afropop Classic May 2, 2024

Afropop Classic April 25, 2024

Afropop Classic April 18, 2024

Planet Afropop April 16, 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.

Afropop Classic March 21, 2024

Afropop Classic February 29, 2024

Planet Afropop February 20, 2024

Afropop Classic February 15, 2024

Planet Afropop February 6, 2024

Hip Deep February 1, 2024

Afropop Classic January 11, 2024
Calypso, Reggae and Jab-Jab Soca: Musical Resistance in Grenada.

Afropop Classic June 5, 2025

Hip Deep May 29, 2025

Blog May 27, 2025

Afropop Classic May 22, 2025

Hip Deep May 8, 2025
This program will initiate listeners into one of the most enchanting and mysterious musical practices in Africa, BaAka people music.

Hip Deep May 1, 2025

Afropop Classic April 24, 2025

Hip Deep April 17, 2025

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