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Afropop Worldwide Presents

Hip Deep Angola Part 1 & 2


Afropop Worldwide put together a really great 4 part series on Angola entitled Hip Deep Angola. There 4 part series provides a snapshot into the development of Angola since independence until the present.

This program is a survey of how various genres of music have played an instrumental part in the cultivation of various forms of expression that have shaped Angolan cultural identity. Check out out. – LOM

Hip Deep Angola, Part 1: Music and Nation in Luanda

We explore the role music played in the creation of a uniquely Angolan consciousness as the country struggled toward independence in the 1960s and ‘70s after centuries of colonialism. Our guides will be producer Ned Sublette, on the ground in Angola, and Dr. Marissa Moorman, historian of southern Africa, and author ofIntonations: A Social History of Music in Luanda, Angola from 1945 to Recent Times. We’ll hear the pathbreaking group Ngola Ritmos, who dared sing songs in Kimbundu publicly when it was prohibited by the Portuguese. We’ll hear immortal voices from the age when the guitar-driven style called semba ruled, as well as some snazzy ‘60s guitar instrumentals.

HIP DEEP ANGOLA 2: KUDURO AND BEYOND [APWW #648]

Join producer Ned Sublette on the streets of Angola’s big, smoggy, oil-booming capital city of Luanda. Peace came to Angola in 2002 after forty-two years of war, and now everything is different, with construction under way everywhere. The postwar generation of the last ten years communicates via text-messaging and electronic music. The biggest of which is the techno-meets-rap-meets-African-dance style known as kuduro (literally, “hard-ass”). But there’s also the zouk-like couple dance of kizomba, a phenomenon that began in the 80s and still packs in dancers to Luanda clubs, and, on a more underground level, the computer-driven style called Afro-House. We’ll talk to kuduro stars Titica, Cabo Snoop, and the charismatic, comic duo of President Gasoline and Prince Black Gold, and ride to the bairro of Marçal to visit the studio of Afro-House beatmaker DJ Satelite.