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Music for the Masses: African Soul Power The Disco Era #3

Feb 26, 2023: 1pm - 3pm
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Hosted by Neva E. Wartell.

In this broadcast, 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 decade. But wait… We’re talking, of course, about the 1970s to mid-’80s – when the musical melting pot boiled over and disco took over dance clubs around the world – offering a sense of freedom and escape through fantasy, fashion, sex, drugs and other excess. Today we journey to the African continent to imagine ourselves on the dance floors of Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Togo, mostly between the years of 1975-1986. (Part 3 of a 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.

Playlists and more information here.

Selection of original DJ mixes here.

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