Afropop Worldwide
- Location: Brooklyn, New York
"Afropop Worldwide" is America's first and longest-lived weekly program on the music of Africa and the African Diaspora.
Series
67 Pieces
"Afropop Worldwide" is America's first and longest-lived weekly program on the music of Africa and the African Diaspora. NOTE: This program is available to PRI affiliates. For more information please email memberships@prx.org.
- From: Afropop Worldwide
- Updated: Jun 27, 2019
- From: Afropop Worldwide
- Updated: Feb 01, 2019
Pieces
On this program, we attend the Festival des Musiques Urbaines d’Anoumabo ( FEMUA) in the Abidjan district of Anoumabo - and hear the sounds and sto...
- Added: Jan 15, 2020
- Length: 59:00
On a 2018 return visit to the archipelago of Cape Verde, we find all sorts of fresh musical activity, global and local.
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 58:59
This program explores some of the complex and shifting dynamics of neocolonialism, cultural ownership and audience in the African vinyl market.
- Added: Jan 08, 2020
- Length: 58:59
Afropop goes to Miami to enjoy highlights from the 21st annual Afro Roots Fest at the North Beach Bandshell.
- Added: Dec 31, 2019
- Length: 58:59
Georges Collinet and Banning Eyre put a new twist on their traditional year-end program. Instead of looking back on the year and the decade, they l...
- Added: Dec 19, 2019
- Length: 59:00
DJ Crew Zona Libre take a break from throwing genre-defying parties and producing their own live events and podcasts to team up with Afropop for an...
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 58:59
We look into the rise and mysterious fall of the funky Bajan spouge beat which ruled the island in the ’70s, and discover a few underground musicia...
- Added: Dec 06, 2019
- Length: 58:59
The Nile Project is an ambitious and imaginative attempt to bring about better stewardship of one of the world’s longest rivers by fostering collab...
- Added: Nov 29, 2019
- Length: 59:01
Produced in São Luís, Brazil by David Katz, this program explores how reggae became embedded in São Luís’ consciousness, cutting across boundaries ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2019
- Length: 58:59
In this musical exposé Afropop producer Saxon Baird susses out the often overlooked NYC Jamaican music scene with interviews from some of its bigge...
- Added: Nov 20, 2019
- Length: 58:58
People who work with Afropop Worldwide
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Kate Cowie-Haskell (Admin)
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Paloma Orozco (Admin)
Distribution Director |
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Kyle Lerfald (Admin)
Associate, Digital Distribution, Operations & Traffic |
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Morgan Church (Admin)
Senior Manager, Programming |
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Kai Lucas-Baradan (Admin)
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Michael Jones (Admin)
Chief Audio Engineer of Afropop Worldwide Producer/Engineer |
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Banning Eyre (Admin)
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Ben Richmond (Admin)
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Roger Gomoll
Contractor On-Air Fundraising |
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Zubin Hensler (Admin)
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