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Music for the Masses: Pan-African Jam 2025 (Audio)
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 selection of classic and contemporary music from across the African motherland and her diasporic family. (Part 11 of a long-running series.)
"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 globe-hopper and armchair traveler alike. You might want to pack a map and a sandwich. Catskill resident "DJ Neva" is an ethnomusicologist, producer, and long-time cultural activist, specializing in music from the entire African continent, as well as the Caribbean and Latin America, the Maghreb and Middle East, and the Roma (Gypsy) diaspora. Formerly the producer of "Continental Drift" on WBAI-FM and New York International on Haitian community station Radio Soleil in NYC. The show is broadcast live from Catskill, NY.
Playlist:
- Even The Losers / Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- Agboju Logun / Shina Williams & His African Percussionists
- Panafrican Jam / Manu Dibango
- I Tcho Tchass / Akofa Akoussah
- Sènsènbo (Hommage à Dounaké Koita) / Ben Zabo
- Hwehwe Mu Na Yi Wo Mpena / K. Frimpong & His Cuban Fiestas
- Flight-Time / Donald Byrd
- Greedy Sped Up / jacxb
- Mfaz' Onga Phesheya / Busi Mhlongo, Twasa
- Sabar / Aiyb Dieng
- Afrolight feat. Sandra Izsadore / Africali
- Sweet Music / Madioko
- Direct Me / Vincent Nguini & Maloko
- Corre Riba, Corre Baxo / Abel Lima
- Guiné-Cabral / Super Mamba Djombo
- 02 Soudanie / Afrotronix
- Mariama / Mory Kanté
- Karibou Ya Bintou / Orchestre Afrisa International
- Ndinecha / Oliver Tuku Mtukudzi
- Gdeim Izik / Aziza Brahim