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 New Orleans Music in the Early Days of Recording
A photo-feature to accompany the Afropop Worldwide Hip Deep episode "The Prehistory of New Orleans Music: Treasures from the Hogan Jazz Archive".... read more |
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 Spotlight on African Bass Players:
Although often underappreciated, bassists in Africa have taken the instrument to exciting new places and have worked to shape the sounds of modern African pop music. More often than not, the bass plays an especially important place in the continent's music, defying the traditional support role in favor of slippery lines of great melodic and rhythmic complexity......read more | ||
 Festival in the Desert: Ten Years After!:
Ten years after it began, the Festival in the Desert in Mali endures as one of the great cultural destinations for Afropop fans. Neither financial challenges nor security threats can stop this supreme act of imagination and cooperation. Chris Nolan reports on this year's events....read more | ||
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