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Music for the Masses: Fresh from Africa, Part 2 (Audio)
Part 2 of a series highlighting current trends in music from across the African continent. This rebroadcast from Feb. 6, 2022, features music released in the second half of 2021 and on the verge of release in 2022, from Benin, Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Togo, and Uganda. Lots of collaboration, innovation, and genre-hopping!
"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.