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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.
![The Mandé Diaspora In New York City, Part 1](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep December 3, 2011
![Música Tropical in Colombia](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep December 3, 2011
![Living in New Orleans, Part 2: After the Failure](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep December 3, 2011
![Islam and Music: From Prohibition to the Science of Ecstasy](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep December 3, 2011
![Hidden Meanings in Congo Music](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep December 3, 2011
![Dub: The Medium Is The Message](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep December 3, 2011
![African Slaves in Islamic Lands](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep December 3, 2011
![A Tango with Robert Farris Thompson](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep December 3, 2011
![Egypt 1: Cairo Soundscape](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep October 25, 2011
![Africa in East Asia: Shanghai Jazz to Tokyo Rastafari](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep September 22, 2011
![Hugh Tracey: Discover and Record](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep March 10, 2010
![The Zulu Factor](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep June 6, 2007
![Africans in the Arabian (Persian) Gulf](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep February 22, 2007
![Merengue, Dominican Music and Dominican Identity](/pgs/img/optimized/transparent.gif)
Hip Deep November 1, 2006
![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