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Music for the Masses: Jazz Is Spoken Here #8: Mar 30, 2025

An exploration of Jazz as a universal language with an infinitely diverse range of dialects. Featuring selections by contemporary artists from Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cong...

Music for the Masses: Struggle Sounds: Mar 23, 2025

Part 9 of our "Afrobeat International" series, in which we explore interpretations of the genre from just about everywhere. Today's theme – the title of a song by Seun Kuti (son of Fela) – reflects th...

Music for the Masses: Pan-African Women's Jam 2025 (re-air of March 9, 2025): Mar 21, 2025

A celebration of International Women's Day – African style! Featuring a diverse and dynamic selection of contemporary women's voices from across the Continent. "Africa is the root; music is the mother...

Music for the Masses: Pan-African Women's Jam 2025 (re-air of March 9, 2025): Mar 21, 2025

A celebration of International Women's Day – African style! Featuring a diverse and dynamic selection of contemporary women's voices from across the Continent. "Africa is the root; music is the mother...

Music for the Masses: Treasures from the Emerald Isle: Mar 16, 2025

Éirinn go brách! Seeing as how Greene County is home to the "Irish Catskills", today we'll celebrate our neighbors with a little bit country, folk, rock, jazz, blues, funk and other musical treasures...

Music for the Masses: Pan-African Women's Jam 2025: Mar 09, 2025

A celebration of International Women's Day – African style! Featuring a diverse and dynamic selection of contemporary women's voices from across the Continent. "Africa is the root; music is the mother...

Music for the Masses: Highlife House Party #3: Mar 02, 2025

Ghana Independence Day celebration! On March 6, 1957, the West African republic of Ghana gained its independence from British colonial rule. With its roots in the Gold Coast region (anglophone West Af...

Music for the Masses: Reggae Africa #2 (Re-air of February 23, 2025): Feb 26, 2025

Featuring songs about roots, resistance, revolution and redemption from across the African motherland, spanning the 1970s to the present."Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and...

Music for the Masses: Reggae Africa #2: Feb 23, 2025

Featuring songs about roots, resistance, revolution and redemption from across the African motherland, spanning the 1970s to the present."Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and...

Music for the Masses: Africa Rocks! #11: Feb 16, 2025

How does Africa rock? Let us count the ways. Part 11 of this frequent series dives deep into the realm of rock fusion from north, south, east, west, and central Africa, from the 1960s to the present....

Music for the Masses: Pan-African Jam 2025 (Re-air of February 14, 2025): Feb 14, 2025

Black History Month has begun, but here at Music for the Masses we celebrate black and brown history every day: "Africa is the root; music is the mother tongue." This broadcast features a diverse sele...

Music for the Masses: Sublime Soukous for a Snow-Bound Sunday: Feb 09, 2025

Are the mid-winter blues getting you down? Well, we've got just the cure for that! Let us take you to your Happy Place with two hours of sweet, soothing, swinging, and sublime Soukous grooves – guitar...

Music for the Masses: Pan-African Jam 2025: Feb 02, 2025

Black History Month has begun, but here at Music for the Masses we celebrate black and brown history every day: "Africa is the root; music is the mother tongue." This broadcast features a diverse sele...

Music for the Masses: Deep State #4: Jan 26, 2025

If current events have you feeling paralyzed, uncertain, afraid, stressed out or straight-up furious, you're not alone! In this series, we reclaim the meaning of "deep state" with two hours of trancif...

Music for the Masses: Roots & Riddims 3: Situation Critical: Jan 19, 2025

Nothing but good vibes going out to the masses with Part 3 of our "Roots & Riddims" mini-series featuring reggae, afrobeat, soca, hip-hop, and more. Today's selections are about struggle, solidari...

Music for the Masses: Jazz Is Spoken Here, Part 7: Jan 12, 2025

An exploration of Jazz as a universal language with an infinitely diverse range of dialects. Featuring contemporary artists from across the globe, including several cross-cultural collaborations. (Par...

Music for the Masses: The World According to Dub 9.0: Jan 05, 2025

A selection of dubwise reggae, funk, soul, jazz, and more to carry the imagination on an international journey of sound and riddim. (Part 9 of an ongoing series.) Special birthday week livication to D...

Music for the Masses: Let's Dance Kadans!: Dec 31, 2024

It began with the Biguine… A genre with many styles, cadence (Creole: kadans) evolved primarily in the Antillean islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, and Haiti from the early 1960s through the...

Music for the Masses: Let's Dance Kadans!: Dec 29, 2024

Super Combo: Moin Domi Dérhô (Super Combo Mait'a Mannioc)Ti Celeste: Moin Envie Danser on Belle Biguine (La Beauté du Folklore)Robert Mavounzy Quartet: Henri Te Vlé Mayé (Vinyl 7" 45rpm EP)Francisco:...

Music for the Masses: Salsa Africana #3: Dec 22, 2024

Winter has officially arrived, the holidays are here, and we've come to heat your home with music! Kick off those snow boots and get your dance on as we bring you two hours of burning African salsa cl...

Music for the Masses: Arabia Rocks! #2: Dec 15, 2024

How does Arabia rock? Let us count the ways. In Part 2 of a new series we cook up a stew of rock fusion from the Levant, the Maghreb, the Arabian Peninsula and more. The recipe? Start with a base of n...

Music for the Masses: So Much Samba! 5.0: Dec 08, 2024

A tropical escape from the chill of winter, featuring Brazilian classics from the 1960s through the '80s – because there's so much samba!"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and...

Music for the Masses: Brazilian Breakaway #2: Dec 01, 2024

A two-hour musical vacation in Brazil, a land of unlimited interpretations and integrations of ancestral rhythms with contemporary, globally popular genres. Unfettered enjoyment strongly encouraged. W...

Music for the Masses: PALOP Africa! #5: Nov 24, 2024

Part 5 of a series featuring music from the PALOP (Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa) – those African nations formerly colonized by Portugal that continue to share Portuguese as a common l...

Music for the Masses: We've Got You Covered #8: Nov 17, 2024

Part 8 of an ongoing series featuring a selection of obsure and lesser-known cover versions of some better-known popular songs."Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. D...

Music for the Masses: Abdullah Ibrahim (Abdullah Ibrahim Trio) - re-air of November 13, 2024: Nov 16, 2024

In this special edition of "Music for the Masses," host DJ Neva speaks with distinguished pianist Abdullah Ibrahim of the Abdullah Ibrahim Trio. Abdullah Ibrahim performs in "The Egg Presents: Abdulla...

Music for the Masses: Fresh from Africa #7: Nov 10, 2024

Part 7 of a series featuring new and recent releases by African artists across the continent and the diaspora, ranging from contemporary traditional to Afro-futuristic, with lots of collaboration, inn...

Music for the Masses: 20241029: Oct 29, 2024

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Music for the Masses: Africa Rocks! #7: Oct 27, 2024

How does Africa rock? Let us count the ways. Part 7 of this multi-part series dives deep into the realm of rock fusion from north, south, east, west, and central Africa, from the 1960s to the present....

Music for the Masses: Africa Rocks! #7: Oct 27, 2024

How does Africa rock? Let us count the ways. Part 7 of this multi-part series dives deep into the realm of rock fusion from north, south, east, west, and central Africa, from the 1960s to the present....

Music for the Masses: Felabration! Afrobeat International, Part 8: Oct 20, 2024

Celebrating the Oct. 15 birthday of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938-1997) with Part 8 of our ongoing Afrobeat International series, exploring the rich language of Afrobeat and...

Music for the Masses: Pan-American Jam #2: Oct 13, 2024

As Yom Kippur meets Indigenous Peoples' Day, we call upon the ancient spirits of the First Nations for forgiveness, mercy, and purification with sounds of resistance and resilience from the vast music...

Music for the Masses: African Soul Power – The Disco Era #5: Oct 06, 2024

In this series, we travel back to a time when the global economy was in crisis and people everywhere were facing inflation, unemployment, and collapse of the dreams brought by advances of the previous...

Music for the Masses: African Soul Power – The Disco Era #5: Oct 06, 2024

In this series, we travel back to a time when the global economy was in crisis and people everywhere were facing inflation, unemployment, and collapse of the dreams brought by advances of the previous...

Music for the Masses: 20241001: Oct 01, 2024

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Music for the Masses: Mali on My Mind: Sep 29, 2024

A mere sampling of music by some of the countless outstanding artists from Mali, West Africa. All but one are recent recordings, from within the last 15 years, by artists currently at the forefront of...

Music for the Masses: Music for the Masses: Sep 26, 2024