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.

Closeup October 10, 2023

How the Sound of Saudade Traveled to Ethiopia

Afropop Classic January 19, 2023

Afro-Tech: Stories of Synths in African Music

Afropop Classic July 8, 2022

Toronto's African Scene

Closeup August 24, 2021

The Lyres of East Africa

Afropop Classic August 12, 2021

New Moves in Afro-Jazz

Afropop Classic December 24, 2020

2020 Highlights

Afropop Classic April 2, 2020

With Feet in Many Worlds

Afropop Classic March 26, 2020

globalFEST 2020

Afropop Classic February 6, 2020

Afro-Tech: Stories of Synths in African Music

Afropop Classic November 29, 2019

Inside the Nile Project

Hip Deep February 1, 2018

Reimagining Jazz in Africa: Cape Town Cosmopolitans and Beyond

Closeup October 3, 2017

Afro-Symphonic Folk: From the Coasts of Africa to the San Francisco Bay

Two very different Bay Area artists, Meklit Hadero and Zena Carlota, use their music to explore what it means to live on two sides of a hyphen: African-American, black-artist, Ethiopian-American, female-musician, to name a few.