The "Black Pacific" is a term coined by our guide, ethnomusicologist Heidi Carolyn Feldman. She describes the circumstance of African descendants displaced not only from their ancestral homes in Africa, but also from the Atlantic coast nations where their enslaved ancestors were originally brought.

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.

The music is sensuous and deeply beautiful, and represents a fascinating and little-understood history. We will hear from Juan Morillo, who represents Peru Negro, from Susana Baca, and from other artists and community scholars Feldman has worked with during her extensive research of this topic.

Produced by Simon Rentner and Wills Glasspiegel
APWW #558

The Music of Black Peru: Cultural Identity in the Black Pacific

Fusions of musique concrète, sound art, electronica, & techno. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Rose Knapp [‡Starving Poet§] is an experimental poetess & sound artist. She is a transfemme androgyne.

Artistically self taught, she creates chaotic, radiant, fragmented, fractal fusions of musique concrète, electronica, techno, sound poetry, & sound art.

She has LP's & EP's released with D.M.T. Records, Far East Sound, Always Human Tapes, Aa3 Corp & others.

Afropop Worldwide is an internationally syndicated weekly radio series, online guide to African and world music, and an international music archive, that has introduced American listeners to the music cultures of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean since 1988. Our radio program is hosted by Georges Collinet from Cameroon, the radio series is distributed by Public Radio International to 110 stations in the U.S., via XM satellite radio, in Africa via and Europe via Radio Multikulti. 