Podcast terbaik Afropop (2025)

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Planet Afropop - Simpa Sonics: Neo-traditional dance music from Northern Ghana 57:02

5d ago57:02

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From late night sessions of frenetic drumming, singing and trumpets and teenagers shaking their "waists" by the light of the moon, to hard-driving studio simpa tracks with drum machines, vst synths and auto-tuned vocals, simpa is an evolving neo-traditional popular music of the Dagbani people of Northern Ghana that is rarely heard outside of the re…

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Women’s History Month: Reconstructing Somalia - Women’s Voices 59:04

7d ago59:04

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In this episode we take a rare look at Somalia’s formative, pre-civil war years (1960-90), which saw the birth of soomaalinimo - Somali patriotism. This national mood inspired people to put aside the clan identities so heavily manipulated by the colonial powers and dedicate themselves to the creation of a new, culturally authentic, but also modern,…

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Planet Afropop - AfroPopup in Malawi, Rising Stars from the Warm Heart of Africa 44:06

16d ago44:06

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In December 2024, Planet Afropop co-host Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe produced the first AfroPopup in at the Uka Café in Lilongwe, Malawi. Despite torrential rain and power outages, the show went on with three fanstastic young Malawian stars, Praise Umali, Chikondi Wiseman and Maggie Kadrum. This podcast tells the story of grass roots cultural activism in …

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Black History Month: Kriolu in New England, The Cape Verdean-American Story 59:04

21d ago59:04

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Of all contemporary Cape Verdeans, Cesaria Evora, "the Queen of the Morna" made the biggest impression internationally. However the first Cape Verdean to grace the American imagination was the harpooner Dagoo in Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851). Cape Verdeans first arrived in United States as whalers in the late 1700's and have been coming ever s…

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Black History Month: A Brief History of Funk 59:04

28d ago59:04

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Funk is the personal favorite of many music lovers. In this panoramic history of the grooviest of genres, we hear track after track of absolute boogie-down classics. Everything from Sly and the Family Stone to James Brown, with a few stops to hear legends like the Meters, Kool and the Gang, and Parliament. We’ll also hear the great Bobby Byrd expla…

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Planet Afropop - Boom.Diwan: Arabian Pearl Diving Meets Afro-Cuba 41:24

1M ago41:24

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Ghazi and Boom.Diwan with Arturo O’Farrill is about as unlikely a group as you could imagine. Ghazi Al-Mulaifi is a rocking guitar player and an ethnomusicologist who studies the music of Arabian Gulf pearl divers, among them, his own ancestors. Boom.Diwan is an ensemble based around the Kuwaiti percussionists who preserve the vanishing art of pear…

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Women's History Month: Afropop's Tribute to Cesaria Evora 59:04

1M ago59:04

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The beloved, Grammy Award winning singer Cesaria Evora from Cape Verde passed away in 2011 at the age of 70. We celebrate Cesaria's life and art with an encore of our 1995 recording of her magnificent New York City debut at the Bottom Line. Cesaria, known as the "Queen of the morna" is backed by her classy group featuring piano, acoustic bass guita…

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Black History Month: Shake it Fo Ya Hood, The History of New Orleans Bounce 59:04

1M ago59:04

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New Orleans, Louisiana is home to some of America's greatest musical traditions, and plays an outsized influence on the evolution of everything from jazz through to r&b, rock and funk. Today, the city is still legendary for its second line brass bands and brightly costumed Mardi Gras Indians. But if you've rolled through New Orleans on pretty much …

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Planet Afropop - Golden Elephants and Ibibio Gospel 52:36

2M ago52:36

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In this edition of Planet Afropop, our newest producer Stella Hartman reports on the UK/Nigerian group Ibibio Sound Machine’s venture into gospel music. Then Georges, Mukwae and Banning preview the annual Syli D’Or battle of the Afropop bands in Montreal by profiling the two winners of the 2024 Afropop Award. Boubé is a young Tuareg composer/singer…

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The Mighty Amazon 59:04

2M ago59:04

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The Amazon River basin has long been a mystery to Brazil. Located far from the centers of business and power in the nation's southeast, the jungle provinces of the Brazilian north have long been ignored by the nation at large. But recently, Brazilians have discovered that the cities and waterways of the Amazon are home to some of the nation's hotte…

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Planet Afropop - The New Black Vanguard of Classical Music 1:00:51

2M ago1:00:51

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In this episode, our new producer, Lauren Williams, revisits an old genre through a new lens. Classical music, a historically exclusionary space, is going through changes. We explore the process of writing and performing boundary-pushing classical music with Seth Parker Woods, a Grammy-nominated cello player who pulls from the sounds and stories of…

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Black History Month: The African Roots of Rock n Roll 59:04

2M ago59:04

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In this program you will the hear the African music roots of famed American blues and rock 'n' roll artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, the Isley Brothers, Robert Johnson, The Kingsmen and many more! Not everyone in this program is as well-known as the above mentioned juggernauts of music. Also included is Celia Cruz…

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Botswana Dumelang 59:04

2M ago59:04

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Botswana is a large, landlocked country in Southern Africa, a vast stretch of desert and savannah between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia with a population of only 2.2 million. While widely overlooked internationally for their music, over the past 20 years Batswana has steadily built a diverse and fruitful local scene that includes traditional c…

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Cairo: Hollywood of the Middle East 59:04

2M ago59:04

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By the mid 20th century, Cairo had become the unrivaled center for music and film production in the Middle East. Producers, writers, composers, actors, musicians, star singers, and creators of every stripe flocked here to take part in the city's fervent, international, progressive artistic milieu. This was the heyday of the diva Umm Kulthum, Mohame…

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Planet Afropop - Johannesburg Meets Detroit: Soweto Gospel Choir's History of House 43:55

3M ago43:55

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Our reporter from Texas, Akshaj Turebylu, triangulates the influences responsible for the irresistible, intercontinental, genre-bending, collaborative album called History of House. Our guides include Shimmy Jiyane, a founding member of the Soweto Gospel Choir, the pre-eminent African gospel performers in the world. We're also joined by Latroit, a …

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A Tale of Two Rebellions - Zanj, Fatamid 59:04

3M ago59:04

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Our Hip Deep edition “A Tale of Two Rebellions" recounts the stories of two remarkable military campaigns in early Islamic history. Both uprisings take place in the late 9th century, both involve Africans as key players, and both set the scene for the crystallization of the Sunni-Shi’ite divide in Islam, which of course continues to this day. By Jo…

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The Zulu Factor 59:04

3M ago59:04

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Beginning in 1815, under Shaka Zulu, the Zulus began a campaign of conquest that would subsume so many other groups that today, the Zulu are South Africa's largest ethnic population, numbering at least six-million. Ethnomusicologist Louise Meintjes, author of Sounds of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio writes that the Zulu reputat…

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Planet Afropop - 2024 Wrapup 50:01

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Georges, Mukwae and Banning share highlights from 2024, including new voices from Malawi and Namibia, highlights from the Nuits D’Afrique festival in Montreal, Mukwae’s song of the year, and George’s shout-out to Africans stationed on U.S. aircraft carriers. Plus a look ahead to Mali’s Bamba Wassoulou Groove, debuting at globalFEST 2025 in New York…

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Abidjan: A New Musical El Dorado 59:04

3M ago59:04

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In the 70s and 80s Ivory Coast’s capital Abidjan was a major musical hub in West Africa. After a series of political crises, Abidjan is back. The Zouglou sound of the 1990s and the coupé decalé rage that followed are being reinvented in the era of Afrobeats and African hip-hop. The group Magic System is now invited to play major events in France—in…

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Proving the Bubu Myth 59:04

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Every year on Sierra Leone’s Independence Day in late April, musicians and revelers descend upon Freetown from throughout the country. Parades and celebrations traverse the city, joining diverse neighborhoods with processional music, including one particular local style called bubu, a trance-inducing sound played by groups of young men blowing inte…

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Global Griots in France 59:03

3M ago59:03

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Traditional Manding (Mande) griots living in France sit at the crossroads between Africa and Europe. Historically, their role has been to weave traditional, oral histories, often within music, to promote a united, peaceful society. As they have become part of the modern global community, each griot has their own way of staying true to these histori…

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Planet AFropop: Celebrating Toumani Diabate 1:02:46

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An intimate look at Toumani Diabaté through 30 years of Afropop Worldwide conversations. From his home in Bamako to concert halls worldwide, Toumani revolutionized the kora and brought West African music to new heights – winning Grammys and collaborating with everyone from Ali Farka Touré to the London Symphony Orchestra.Join us as his longtime fri…

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Ebo Taylor and the Pioneers of Afro-Funk 59:04

4M ago59:04

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This Hip Deep edition, based on field work in Ghana, tells the story of how highlife turned into Afro-funk. Guitarist/composer/bandleader Ebo Taylor, is our principle guide, taking us to his hometown Saltpond to explore the roots of his complex sound, and recounting his highlife years, and his deep study of American jazz in London in the early 60s—…

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Planet Afropop: Breaking into Afrobeats: First Klaz and Kemuel 55:51

4M ago55:51

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In this episode, our reporter in Lagos, Fay Fay, turns us on to two rising stars in African music’s dominant genre, Afrobeats. First Klaz, also known as Helicopter Boy, has made his from humble beginnings to become a top contender, and Kemuel has evolved from a rapper, modeled on gangsta stars, to become a tuneful and insightful Afrobeats singer/so…

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The Mighty Orchestra Baobab 59:04

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Fifty years ago, the president of Senegal’s nephew was putting together a band for his new, upscale Dakar nightclub, and he recruited a handful of musicians who are still together today. Bringing together elements from their homes across West Africa to the Afro-Cuban style of the time, the Orchestra Baobab became one of Dakar’s top bands. From the …

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Planet Afropop - Simpa Sonics: Neo-traditional dance music from Northern Ghana 57:02

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Women’s History Month: Reconstructing Somalia - Women’s Voices 59:04

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Planet Afropop - AfroPopup in Malawi, Rising Stars from the Warm Heart of Africa 44:06

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Black History Month: Kriolu in New England, The Cape Verdean-American Story 59:04

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Black History Month: A Brief History of Funk 59:04

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Planet Afropop - Boom.Diwan: Arabian Pearl Diving Meets Afro-Cuba 41:24

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Women's History Month: Afropop's Tribute to Cesaria Evora 59:04

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Black History Month: Shake it Fo Ya Hood, The History of New Orleans Bounce 59:04

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Planet Afropop - Golden Elephants and Ibibio Gospel 52:36

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The Mighty Amazon 59:04

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Planet Afropop - The New Black Vanguard of Classical Music 1:00:51

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Black History Month: The African Roots of Rock n Roll 59:04

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Botswana Dumelang 59:04

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Cairo: Hollywood of the Middle East 59:04

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Planet Afropop - Johannesburg Meets Detroit: Soweto Gospel Choir's History of House 43:55

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A Tale of Two Rebellions - Zanj, Fatamid 59:04

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The Zulu Factor 59:04

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Planet Afropop - 2024 Wrapup 50:01

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Abidjan: A New Musical El Dorado 59:04

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Proving the Bubu Myth 59:04

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Global Griots in France 59:03

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Planet AFropop: Celebrating Toumani Diabate 1:02:46

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Ebo Taylor and the Pioneers of Afro-Funk 59:04

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Planet Afropop: Breaking into Afrobeats: First Klaz and Kemuel 55:51

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The Mighty Orchestra Baobab 59:04

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