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About Afropop Worldwide
Afropop Worldwide is America's first and longest-lived weekly program on the music of Africa and the African Diaspora.
Host Georges Collinet, born in Cameroon, is one of the best-known and best-loved broadcasters on the African continent. Known to his fans as "Maxi Voom Voom," Georges' French and English language music programs have attracted millions of listeners.
The program is distributed by PRI, Public Radio International.
You can support this program directly with a donation to Afropop Worldwide.
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From the Afropop Worldwide podcastJun 13, 2013 - In Part One of our 2012 Hip Deep Brazil series, we travel back in time to Rio De Janeiro in early 20th century to explore the birth of Brazil's most iconic sound: samba. Beginning with the arrival of poor nordestinos in the city after the end of slavery in 1888, we follow the exploits of the early sambistas as they forged the genre that would come to represent the nation. Brazilian scholar Carlos Sandroni shows us how Afro-Brazilian religious music and popular styles like the modinha transformed into the syncopated samba beat. Then, media scholar Bryan McCann guides us through the glamor and political intrigue of 1930s Rio as samba explodes as the popular music of choice throughout the country. Plus, we speak with samba greats from the old guard to the young bloods including Dona Yvone Lara, Heitorzinho dos Prazeres, Paul
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Jun 06, 2013 - In Afropop's annual rite of summer, we present our picks for some of the most exciting artists touring nationally. This is the most active season of the year for touring African, Caribbean and Latin artists. At press time, several festivals have not announced their line-ups but we do know that Fatoumata Diawara, Bombino, Oliver "Tuku" Mutukudzi, Amadou and Miriam will be here. Many will perform at cool, worldly festivals in New York City, upstate New York, L.A., San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, Detroit and elsewhere. This just may inspire a road trip!
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Jun 01, 2013 - This double-header explores two little-known Afropop stories. First, producer Banning Eyre visits Montreal during the 26-year-old Nuits d'Afrique festival and meets great world musicians who've made that northern city home, including Zal Sissoko (Senegal), Syncop (Algeria and more), and Romel Ribiero (Brazil). Then, we preview a unique art exhibit, "The Progress of Love," a collaboration between museums in the US and Nigeria. We'll celebrate the event with a sampling of African love songs.
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Jun 01, 2013 - "AFRO-MONTREAL AND THE PROGRESS OF LOVE" [APWW PGM #650]
This double-header explores two little-known Afropop stories. First, producer Banning Eyre visits Montreal during the 26-year-old Nuits d'Afrique festival and meets great world musicians who've made that northern city home, including Zal Sissoko (Senegal), Syncop (Algeria and more), and Romel Ribiero (Brazil). Then, we preview a unique art exhibit, "The Progress of Love," a collaboration between museums in the US and Nigeria. We'll celebrate the event with a sampling of African love songs.
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May 17, 2013 - For this exclusive Afropop Worldwide Hip Deep report, producer Ned Sublette travels to Port-au-Prince, where he checks in with bandleader Richard Morse of RAM, and with Lolo and Manzandeacute; Beaubrun of Boukman Eksperyans, both of whom produced hotly controversial carnival songs this year. In a country where the president, Michel Martelly, was formerly the #1 dance-music singer, the complexities of politics are felt in music. We'll look at how vodou and carnival interact to provide a vocabulary for political expression in the tense post-quake atmosphere. We'll meet 95-year-old Emerante de Pradines Morse, who was the first singer to perform the songs of vodou as entertainment in Port-au-Prince; we'll hear from historian Laurent Dubois, author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History; and we'll go crowd-surfing in the crush of carnival at Jakmel, the southern Haitian port city that was once a colonial cousin to New Orleans. Produced with support from a Knight Luce Fellowship for Reporting on Global Religion, a program of the University of Southern California's Knight Chair in Media and Religion.
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May 13, 2013 - Afropop's Roadshow series continues with a focus on new music and interviews from Sierra Leone. Electric Bubu music from Janka Nabay, hip hop from Bajah and The Dry Eye Crew, the latest from Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars, and introducing Sorie Kondi. Israeli maestro Idan Raichel talks about his collaborations with Mali's Vieux Farka Tourandeacute; and musicians from Sudan. Also, new Madagascar salegy boogie from Jaojoby, the arrival in the US of exiled Cameroonian legend Lapiro de Mbanga, and lots more.
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May 09, 2013 - Afropop's Roadshow series continues with a focus on new music and interviews from Sierra Leone. Techno Bubu music from Janka Nabay, hip hop from Bajah and Dry Eye Krewe, the latest from Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars, and introducing Sorie Kondi. Also Israeli maestro Idan Raichel talks about his collaborations with Mali's Vieux Farka Tourandeacute; and musicians from Sudan. Also, new Madagascar salegy boogie from Jaojoby, the arrival in the US of exiled Cameroonian legend Lapiro de Mbanga, and more.
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May 02, 2013 - In this Hip Deep program, we explore musical connections between Africa and the Indian subcontinent. First, we hear the story of the Afro-Indian Sidi community. Starting in the 13th century, Africans arrived in India as soldiers in the armies of Muslim conquerors. Some were able to rise through the ranks to become military leaders and even rulers in India. Their descendents continue to live in India today, performing African-influenced Sufi trance music at shrines of a black Muslim saint named Baba Gor. Next, we dive into the swinging jazz era of 1930s Bombay, when African-American jazz musicians arrived by the dozen to perform at the glitzy Taj Mahal Hotel. They trained a generation of Indian jazz musicians who would become instrumental in the rise of India's Hindi film music industry. Then, we head south to Sri Lanka, where Africans have had a presence for almost 500 years. We explore their history through the groovy Afro-Indo-Portuguese pop music style known as baila, popularized by 1960s star Wally Bastiansz and still performed at parties around Sri Lanka today. Last, we speak with Deepak Ram, a Indian jazz flutist who recounts his experiences growing up Indian in apartheid South Africa. Throughout, we speak with leading experts, and of course, hear fantastic - and often unexpected - music.
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Apr 25, 2013 - It's been more than two years since APWW last surveyed the African sounds making waves in America. This program plays catch-up by putting the spotlight on a few standouts. From hip-hop and reggae to roots grooves and Afropop revival bands, spiced with remixes, collaborations, and off-the-wall connections—music drawn from across the African continent is thriving in US towns and cities. Including afrobeat from the Souljazz Orchestra, Cheick Hamala Diabate's experimental traditionalism, Alec Lomami's Congolese-American Dancepop, and with a special focus on Bombino's collaboration with Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach on his 'Nomad' album.
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