Oromo cassettes and early synth from Sheba Sound, a music digging collective and record label based in Addis Ababa. Check out their field recording mission and archives here: http://shebasound.com.

Oromo Sounds: Cassettes and Early Synth from Ethiopia (RIAFC079)

https://www.nts.live/shows/asher-g/episodes/asher-g-s-caribbean-memories-2nd-july-2022

Asher G's Caribbean Memories 030722

https://www.nts.live/shows/seance-centre/episodes/seance-centre-17th-august-2022

Séance Centre w/ MoogMelodiya - 170822

Our own tropical cyberpunk tackles every other Monday lunchtime...

https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-ruf-dug/episodes/soup-to-nuts-ruf-dug-19th-september-2022

Soup To Nuts w/ Ruf Dug 190922

In 1809, the population of New Orleans doubled almost overnight because of French-speaking refugees from Cuba. You read that right-- French-speaking refugees from Cuba -- part of a wave of music and culture that emigrated from east to west in the wake of the Haitian Revolution. We'll look at the distinct African roots of these three regions, and compare what their musics sound like today. This Hip Deep program, originally broadcast in 2005, is being repeated in memoriam the pathbreaking historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (1929-2022), who gave us the tools to understand the making of Afro-Louisiana. Produced by Ned Sublette.

[APWW #467] [Originally aired 2006]

Additional material: 

*) Read Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's autobiography, Haunted by Slavery: A Memoir of a Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle.
*) May 13, 2021 conversation between Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and Kalaamu ya Salaam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxq2msJsLQ 
*) March 5, 2021 conversation between Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and Kalaamu ya Salaam: https://vimeo.com/526784305/c853f32608
*) See the transcription of Ned Sublette's interview with Gwendolyn Midlo Hall: https://afropop.org/articles/gwendolyn-midlo-hall

The Fertile Crescent of Music: Haiti, Cuba, and New Orleans

An hour of soulful chillers from Schwa La this month, with tracks from the likes of Little Dragon, Rachel Sweet & Smino.

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Club Swei w/ Schwa La - October 2022

Foundational for Broadway and the movies, intertwined with jazz, tap dancing is a Great American Art. Strap on your shoes and shuffle along as we trace the history of tap and celebrate the Black artists and innovators who built--and continue to build this art form. From its murky origins melding African percussion and Anglo-Irish step dancing to tap's golden age and its ongoing evolution.

Produced by Ben Richmond
APWW #851

The Black History of Tap Dancing

This year, we are launching a new tradition: a year-end episode that looks forward rather than back. We’ll ask artists and others to tell us about something new they discovered in African music this year, something that points to the future. The answers range from rising- star artists, to changes in the industry, to revelations about artists and styles that have been around, just not noticed. We’ll hear from Angelique Kidjo, Oumou Sangare, Fally Ipupa and many of the artists we met at WOMEX 2022. Produced by Banning Eyre.

APWW #866

New Africa - 2022

Mr. Big Happy is a graphic designer, artist, DJ, and music archivist from San Francisco, California. While he is an accomplished designer and artist, over the years he has always had a love for music and spends time searching for rare and obscure vinyl. Big Happy’s focus is the late 70s into the late 80s - modern soul, funk, boogie and disco.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-big-happy-show/episodes/the-big-happy-show-17th-january-2023

The Big Happy Show 170123

Breakfast, in Flo motion - served by Flo Dill, every Monday to Wednesday.

This week's dedication: Why by Carly Simon, for Samson from Nicole. To submit your dedication for the Tuesday show, email worldinflomotion69@gmail.com with your selection & 'DEDICATION' in the subject line.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-breakfast-show-flo/episodes/the-breakfast-show-flo-24th-january-2023

The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Flo 240123

https://www.nts.live/shows/sarah-davachi/episodes/sarah-davachi-13th-february-2023

Le Jardin w/ Sara Davachi 130223

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. 

The Fertile Crescent of Music: Haiti, Cuba, and New Orleans

Afropop Worldwide

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