Afropop Worldwide

Blog - August 5, 2016
Hip Deep Rio
September 13, 2018
Hip Deep in Northern Nigeria
November 9, 2017
Hip Deep Angola 2: Kuduro and Beyond
June 18, 2015
Hip Deep Madagascar in 21st Century Antananarivo
September 6, 2018
Hip Deep In the Niger Delta
July 2, 2015
King Sunny Ade: Hip Deep Portrait
Videos - February 6, 2015
Hip Deep Salegy Video!
July 23, 2015
Hip Deep in Madagascar: The Tsapiky Story
December 13, 2012
Hip Deep Angola 4: The Cuban Intervention in Angola
November 23, 2012
Hip Deep Angola Part 3: A Spiritual Journey to Mbanza-Kongo
Videos - March 25, 2014
Hip Deep Mexico Tumblr
Interviews - September 27, 2012
Stefanie Alisch: The Hip Deep Interview
Blog - January 1, 2013
Hip Deep Spotify Playlist
January 5, 2017
Hip Deep in Mali: The Tuareg Predicament
Blog - November 2, 2017
Hip Deep in Nigeria
In the fall of 2016 and winter 2017, three Afropop producers spent over two months gathering music and interviewing artists, activists, scholars and other players in the music scenes of Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kano and Edo State. The result is Afropop’s most ambitious undertaking to date, a set of radio documentaries and Web offerings that add up to a profound musical portrait of Nigeria.
November 2, 2017
Hip Deep Angola1: Music and Nation in Luanda
November 20, 2014
Hip Deep in Madagascar: Songs of the North
March 16, 2017
Hip Deep in Nigeria Preview
January 30, 2009
Hip Deep Scholar: Ryan Skinner
May 15, 2014
Hip Deep Ghana 1: Ebo Taylor and the Pioneers of Afro-Funk
Features - September 14, 2012
Hip Deep Angola Press Release
Blog - June 24, 2011
Hip Deep in Egypt: Inanities
August 20, 2015
Hip Deep Ghana 2: 21st Century Accra From Gospel to Hiplife
Videos - November 23, 2012
Hip Deep Angola Performance Video
Videos - December 17, 2013
Hip Deep Ghana! Video Teaser
Blog - February 22, 2007
Hip Deep Scholar: Joseph Braude
January 11, 2018
Hip Deep in Mali: Growing Into Music in 21st Century Bamako
This program presents a musical portrait of Bamako in the wake of crisis. We explore the precarious lives of griots in today’s Bamako, focusing on the upbringing and education of children in these hereditary families of historian-entertainers.
Blog - December 24, 2012
Hip Deep Angola 4- The Playlist!
Interviews - May 16, 2013
Hip Deep Essential Interview: Laurent Dubois
Features - August 2, 2013
Featured Artists: Hip Deep Ghana 2
Interviews - November 25, 2012
Hip Deep Interview: Dr. Bárbaro Martínez Ruiz
Blog - March 26, 2014
Hip Deep Lebanon Video: Yasmine Hamdan Interviewed
Videos - April 2, 2014
Somali Love Songs: A Hip Deep Introduction
Interviews - December 19, 2012
Piero Gleijeses: The Hip Deep Essential Interview
Blog - March 7, 2013
Discography: King Sunny Adé: Hip Deep Portrait
Blog - September 14, 2012
MARISSA MOORMAN: THE ESSENTIAL HIP DEEP INTERVIEW
Blog - September 5, 2013
Hip Deep Lebanon 1 Special Feature: Zaki Nassif and Sabah
September 20, 2018
Music and History in The Two Sudans
July 7, 2016
Congo-Goma: Music, Conflict and NGOs
February 11, 2016
Ancient Text Messages: Batá Drums in a Changing World
December 3, 2011
A Tango with Robert Farris Thompson
March 6, 2015
Lebanon 1: Fairuz, A Woman for All Seasons
March 21, 2014
After the Quake: Music, Politics and Spirituality in Haiti
Interviews - May 2, 2013
HIP DEEP INTERVIEW: Naresh Fernandes on Bombay’s Jazz Age
Blog - August 3, 2012
NEH awards Afropop grant for 2012-2013 Hip Deep Season!
September 8, 2016
Afro-Lisbon and the Lusophone Atlantic: Dancing Toward the Future
March 30, 2017
Edo Highlife: Culture, Politics and Progressive Traditionalism
September 15, 2016
The French Caribbean--Cosmopolitan, Colonial, Complicated
August 4, 2016
Rio 1: Samba at the Dawn of Modern Brazil
December 12, 2014
East African Taarab
December 5, 2011
The Hip Hop Generation in Africa: Ghana's Hip-Life and Ivory Coast's Coupe-Decale
December 1, 2016
The Money Show
May 10, 2018
Lagos and the Rise of Nigerian Afrobeats
November 12, 2015
African Sounds of the Indian Subcontinent
May 11, 2017
La Bamba: The Afro-Mexican Story
September 3, 2015
Dread Inna Inglan: How the U.K. Took to Reggae
August 30, 2012
Nollywood: Nigeria's Mirror
May 7, 2015
Thomas Mapfumo 1: The War Years
August 23, 2007
A Tale of Two Rebellions: How Africans Helped Shape the Future of Islam
February 15, 2018
Africa and the Blues
December 29, 2016
Ethiopia Part 1: Empire and Revolution
Blog - May 16, 2012
Afropop Worldwide's Hip Deep in Egypt Complete Series is Online
December 3, 2011
Diaspora Encounters: The Indo Caribbean World
December 3, 2011
Hidden Meanings in Congo Music
September 22, 2011
Africa in East Asia: Shanghai Jazz to Tokyo Rastafari
March 9, 2017
The Music of Black Peru: Cultural Identity in the Black Pacific
This Hip Deep edition explores the sonically vibrant realm of Afro-Peruvian music, a young genre identification that has flourished since the 1950s and has now produced artists of international renown, such as singer Susana Baca, and the black folkloric company Peru Negro.
May 8, 2009
Diaspora Encounters: Kriolu in New England, The Cape Verdean-American Story
November 10, 2016
The Cumbia Diaspora: From Colombia to the World
April 13, 2017
The Ring and The Shout
December 3, 2011
African Slaves in Islamic Lands
December 5, 2011
Liberation of the Drum (1937-1945)
December 14, 2017
Thomas Mapfumo 2: The Mugabe Years
In recognition of the end of Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule in Zimbabwe, we are rebroadcasting our program on the career of Thomas Mapfumo during the Mugabe years.
July 14, 2016
Escaping the Delta
February 22, 2007
Africans in the Arabian (Persian) Gulf
November 1, 2018
Shake It Fo Ya Hood: Bounce, New Orleans Hip-Hop
March 15, 2018
Roots and Future: A History of U.K. Dance
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.
March 27, 2014
Reconstructing Somalia: Love Songs at the Birth of a Nation
December 5, 2011
African Hip Hop: Senegal and Tanzania
October 25, 2011
Egypt 1: Cairo Soundscape
December 27, 2018
Lebanon 2: Diasporas
December 5, 2011
The Art of Improvisation: Part 1
August 8, 2014
Lebanon 3: Beirut Today
December 5, 2011
The Musical Legacy of Al Andalus, Part 3: Reverberations
February 1, 2018
Reimagining Jazz in Africa: Cape Town Cosmopolitans and Beyond
April 27, 2012
Egypt 5: Revolution Songs
October 19, 2017
Riqueza del Barrio: Puerto Rican Music in the United States
May 22, 2014
Live from Bongoland: The History of Tanzania's Music Economy
June 20, 2013
Rio 2: Samba Strikes Back
August 13, 2015
Living in New Orleans, Part 1: All on A Mardi Gras Day
June 26, 2006
Luiz Gonzaga: The King of Baião
December 5, 2011
The Fertile Crescent: Haiti, Cuba and Louisiana
January 9, 2014
Egypt 4: Living Traditions
October 15, 2015
The Story of Rai
December 3, 2011
Living in New Orleans, Part 2: After the Failure
December 3, 2011
Dub: The Medium Is The Message
December 5, 2011
The Musical Legacy of Al Andalus, Part 2: Africa & Beyond
Blog - August 22, 2012
Spirit of Angola: Granular
November 1, 2006
Merengue, Dominican Music and Dominican Identity
August 11, 2016
The Tropical Soul of Jorge Ben Jor