Music
- Wednesday, June 9Africa Make Some Noise:
The "African" music
scene today
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Contemporary African music, hugely influential and yet underrated, misunderstood, misrepresented, and nowhere near as popular as it could be outside of the continent (There's a lot more to it than "World music" festivals would have one believe).
As DJ Edu points out in the above podcast, even the label "African music" makes no sense in trying to sum up the music from a continent so diverse (>1,000 languages; 54 countries), populous (1 billion) and huge (China, USA, Western Europe, India and Argentina would fit into it with room to spare). Click on "Read More"
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Why doesn't music from Africa get given its fair due? And how to begin addressing this? The BBC podcast Africa Make Some Noise is a journey with DJ Edu through today's urban "African" music scene, with contributions from Emmanuel Jal, Akon, Wyclef, Mos Def, Buraka Som Sistema, [[K'naan]], Dynamite MC, Tony Allen, Nneka, Sway, Mujava, Black Coffee as well as bloggers and journalists from across the continent, including AfriPOP Editor and This Is Africa contributor Phiona Okumu.
DOWNLOAD it from the BBC, and spread the news, 'cos whether you're a long time fan of music from Africa or you're new and curious but don't know where to begin, this'll give you some food for thought and introduce you to some new music and artists.
Below are just some of the tracks/videos mentioned in the podcast:
[[Youssou N'Dour]] featuring Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds (Senegal)
Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata (South Africa)
Fela Kuti - Coffin For Head of State (Nigeria)
{youtube}AMr_GUD_III{/youtube}2Face - African Queen (Nigeria)
{youtube}IYX_Ql-3U10{/youtube}DJ Cleo - Wena Ng'hamba Nawe (South Africa)
DJ Mujava - Township Funk (South Africa)
Black Coffee - Turn Me On (South Africa)
Emmanuel Jal - War Child (Sudan)
{youtube}VT-0NG5_fhw{/youtube}K'Naan - What's Hardcore (Somalia)
[[Just-A-Band]] - Ha He (Kenya)
{youtube}_mG1vIeETHc{/youtube}Highlights from the MAMAS (MTV Music Awards)
{youtube}jv1e_fCXyYM{/youtube}HHP - Mpitse: Best Video Award, MTV Awards 2009 (South Africa)
Nneka - Heartbeat, Chase & Status Remix (Nigeria)
Heartbeat (Original)
Tony Allen - Asiko. Sampled by J Dilla for "Heat" on Common's album Like Water Chocolate (Nigeria)
{youtube}0N6ka9e0_ZI{/youtube}Common - "Heat"