Afropop Classic August 17, 2023
A tour through the early stages of Congolese music.
Closeup August 15, 2023
Stambeli: Music that Heals from Tunisia
Hip Deep August 10, 2023
Part 2 of Afropop's Al Andalus series focuses on the effects in Africa and the Middle East.
Hip Deep August 10, 2023
Afropop Classic August 3, 2023
The World Sacred Music Festival In Fes, Part 1
Afropop Classic July 27, 2023
This Afropop Worldwide program traces the history of the oud.
Hip Deep July 20, 2023
Closeup July 18, 2023
Afropop Classic July 13, 2023
Hip Deep July 6, 2023
Mali: Ancient Empires to Multi-Cultural Democracy
Closeup July 4, 2023
Afropop Classic June 29, 2023
Mali’s Amadou & Mariam Headline the 25th Afro Roots Fest in Miami
Afropop Classic June 1, 2023
The 21-string harp, the kora, is deeply explored in this Afropop Worldwide program.
Afropop Classic May 24, 2023
Afropop Worldwide sums up its 2023 visit to Dar Es Salaam, with live music and interviews.
Afropop Classic May 18, 2023
Oromo Music: Historical Memory and Competing Visions in Ethiopia
Afropop Classic May 11, 2023
Thirty years of interviews and music from Johnny Clegg, Juluka and Savuka.
Afropop Classic April 20, 2023
David Katz delves into the broad array of popular music in contemporary Costa Rica.
Afropop Classic April 13, 2023
This program explores the life and music of Congolese superstar Papa Wemba.
Afropop Classic March 30, 2023
This program samples performances from the Sauti Za Busara festival in Stonetown, Zanzibar, Tanzania, in February 2023.
Afropop Classic March 23, 2023
WOMEX 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal, featured mostly women-led bands in its African and African diaspora lineup.
Afropop Classic March 9, 2023
We hear highlights from the 2022 Afro-Roots Fest in Miami featuring Dayme Arocena and Sinkane.
Hip Deep February 16, 2023
This program tells the story of how jazz emerged in the context of all the other African American musics that proliferated in late 19th and early 20th century New Orleans: blues, ragtime, Mardi Gras Indian music, vaudeville and minstrelsy, spiritual church music, and more.
Hip Deep February 9, 2023
Jazz pianist Maurice Rocco was a star of American nightclubs and Hollywood films in the 1930s-40s, playing in an ecstatic, stand-up style that left a deep impression on rock and roll.
Afropop Classic January 26, 2023
Brazilian broadcaster, producer and music aficionado Béco Dranoff returns to Afropop Worldwide with a set of great new music from South America’s music cauldron.
Afropop Classic January 19, 2023
In this episode, we explore the synthesizer, looking closely at the history of this ubiquitous (and often debated) piece of musical technology, and investigating how and why it was first used in a variety of African musics.
Afropop Classic January 5, 2023
From Paris to New Orleans and Boston, Haitian musicians are shaking up the music scene.
Afropop Classic December 29, 2022
Over the past 60 years, a number of musicians from Africa and its diaspora have come to base themselves, or have been born, in Sweden.
Afropop Classic December 22, 2022
Afropop asks artists what new things they discovered in music in 2022.
