All posts with tag: South America

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  program December 26, 2012

  The Soul of São Paulo: Rock, Rap and Future Music from the Endless City

  In this episode, Afropop Worldwide travels to São Paulo, the 20-million person Brazilian megalopolis, to report on the explosive music scene stirring among the city’s cosmopolitan youth. São Paulo is hardly the Brazil you see on the postcards – it’s … Read more »

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  blog December 11, 2012

  La Gallera Social Club releases “Ecos del tercer Mundo Vol. 2″

  Ecos del tercer Mundo Vol. 1, the first release by La Gallera Social Club, a group of young musicians creating a thrillingly dreamy hybrid of Venezuelan roots, modern electronics, and laid-back indy coo, was easily one of the best things we heard … Read more »

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  blog July 30, 2012

  Rio Journal: Samba, the New Class

  As part of our Hip Deep programming, we sent Afropop producer Marlon Bishop to Rio De Janeiro to produce a two-part radio documentary series about the history of samba in Brazil’s iconic city by the bay. Read about his experiences … Read more »

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  interview July 27, 2012

  Samba and Pop Music in Rio Today, With Ethnomusicologist Fred Moehn

  Fred Moehn is an ethnomusicologist who studies Brazil and other Lusophone (that is, Portuguese-speaking) musical worlds. His new book, out on Duke University Press, is called ‘Contemporary Carioca,’ and it’s about the presence of samba in the pop music being … Read more »

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  hip-deep July 26, 2012

  Rio 2: Samba Strikes Back

  Part two of our Hip-Deep series on the music of Rio de Janeiro picks up the samba story where we left off in the 1960s, tracing the rhythm as it transforms and re-appears throughout the many popular music forms that … Read more »