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From the most profound classical music recordings ever made, to genres and musical perspectives from around the globe, talk on music, art and recordings that changed our lives and the world around us. Tune-in as we explore why we only listen to "dead" people, and what is "alive" in music today. Special guests, call-ins welcome.
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February 16, 2025: It's Nearly Africa
Celebrating Black History Month with another edition of Cullan's African playlist and historical black composers and musicians of the western classical genre.
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | Images | Approx. start time |
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| XTC |
It’s Nearly Africa
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English Settlement | Virgin Records | 1982 | 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Wazzi musicians of Cote d'Ivoire |
traditional Ivorian dance music
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Private Video | 2013 | Wazzi -- meaning "Unbeatable" -- is a West African drumming and dance group comprised of Ivorian performers living in the Fententaa Refugee Camp in Ghana. Forced to flee Cote d'Ivoire in 2011 due to the civil war, these performers demonstrate their passion and spirit through sharing the traditional songs and dance of their people. |
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0:10:52 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Osei Korankye, seperewa (Ghana) |
Kesewa
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Emmere Nhyina Nse | Akwaaba Music | 2015 | with Michael Akakpo (drums), Christopher Ametornyo (prempremsua), Elizabeth Osei Boadu (vocals) at the University of Ghana (2015) In support of Osei Korankye's new release on Akwaaba Music. www.akwaabamusic.com Video produced by Benjamin Lebrave and Colter Harper. Editing by Colter Harper. www.colterharper.com University of Ghana, Department of Music (2015) |
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0:13:44 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| The people of Agbodrafo, Togo |
Voodoo ceremony song
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private video | 2009 |
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0:17:28 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Fulani musicians, Burkina Faso |
Instrumental
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private video | 2008 |
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0:21:37 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Ukeke AKA Peter Pan (Benin) |
Oghi mwen orue nen
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video | 2009 | 0:23:03 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
| 8-yr-old kountougi player (Niger) |
Kountougi solo
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EXPLORER SERIES: AFRICA - West Africa: Drum, Chant & Instrumental Music | Nonesuch | 1976 |
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0:26:57 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Ikorodo Group, Igbo Nsukka people (Nigeria) |
Ije Nwayo (Walk Gently)
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video | Africana Digital Ethnography Project | 2019 |
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0:32:26 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Gourane people (Chad) |
Gourane Song
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private recording | private | 2011 | 0:34:40 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Ongo Ensemble (Central African Republic) |
Ndraje Balendro (Initiation Song)
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Central African Republic: Banda Polyphony | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | 1976 |
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0:38:10 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Mukonge musicians (Cameroon) |
Traditional dance music
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video | private | 2011 |
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0:43:55 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Bulu-Beti-Fang musicians (Equatorial Guinea) |
traditional song
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video | private | 2014 | 0:44:56 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Abudito Menezes (São Tomé & Príncipe) |
Os Untues Demanda Yon
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Musica de São Tomé | private | 2014 |
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0:46:26 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Raritan Players |
I. Sancho: The Runaway, from Cotillions
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2023 | Mandy Wolman, violin Eve Miller, cello Read more at https://raritanplayers.org/sancho | 1:09:52 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
| Clipper Erickson, piano |
N. Dett: In The Bottoms Suite, V. Juba Dance
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My Cup Runneth Over: The Complete Piano Works of R. Nathaniel Dett | Navona | 2015 | 1:13:39 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| John Davis, piano |
T. Wiggins “Blind Tom”: Water in the Moonlight
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John Davis Plays Blind Tom | Newport Classic, Ltd. | 1999 | 1:19:35 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Langston Hughes |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
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The Voice of Langston Hughes | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | 1995 | 1:22:38 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Langston Hughes |
I, Too
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The Voice of Langston Hughes | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1995 | 1995 | 1:23:13 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Maria Corley, piano |
M. Bonds: Troubled Water
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Piano Music (African American Women) - Capers, V. / Price, F. / Bonds, M.A. | Albany | 2006 | 1:26:54 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Sunset Four Jubilee Singers |
Wade In The Water
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Black Vocal Groups Vol. 1 (1924-1930) | Document Records | 1925 | 1:32:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Hot Tuna |
99 Year Blues
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Burgers | Grunt | 1972 | 1:42:13 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Marian Anderson, contralto |
J. A. Bland: Carry me back to old Virginny
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RCA Victor Argentina | 1941 | Charles O'Connor, cond. | 1:48:18 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Jessye Norman, soprano |
Deep River
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Live: "Spirituals in Concert" at Carnegie Hall | 1:51:20 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
| Marion Williams |
Mean Old World
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Live in Utrecht | 1962 | 1:59:41 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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Listener comments!
hectic:
chresti:
tom tom the pipers son:
AMYGDALA:
AMYGDALA:
Mama 💜:
danny san:
ViolaChica:
ViolaChica:
AskJoe:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
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Bobby:
tom tom the pipers son:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
danny san:
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AMYGDALA:
slugluv1313:
greetings, Carol! Cullan! Living and Dead Creatures All!
been listening, just away from comments board -- always love when i can catch your show live! 🐱🐱
Paul Szepesvary:
Mama 💜:
Lou Diamond Phillps:
tom tom the pipers son:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Whereas in Africa the Musics involved complex hypnotic PolyRhythms - too complex for Western notation to easily accommodate in fact. & the corresponding Spiritual conception was the Crossroads of the Physical & the Spiritual here on the Horizontal Earth. With the Spirit actually entering the Body in Posession in Ritual - & in which the Community is united. One is always struck by the Unity between participants in African Musics - first of all. Our European derived culture seems so solitary & divided between individuals by comparison...
Anyhow - with the advent of Slavery - these Musics inevitably collided - & the entire attendant manner of relating the Body to the Spirit in Musics in the Americas - & its Musics - became something else. We posit that - it really is no less than this...
Paul Szepesvary:
Northern Jacana:
PaulRobeson1925:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
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tom tom the pipers son:
sunshine:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
PaulRobeson1925:
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chresti:
tom tom the pipers son:
danny san:
chresti:
Lynne Stokes:
Jherweg:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
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Lou Diamond Phillps:
Ken From Hyde Park:
Lynne Stokes:
lover gal:
Lou Diamond Phillps:
tom tom the pipers son:
PaulRobeson1925:
Virginia codified into law (this would created our Peculiar Institution) “the slave child shall take the condition of the MOTHER” this perverted the old world model of the “slave child shall take the condition of the father”
Meaning in America a white man could own his own children and their children's children as slaves. forever.
Slavery began earlier
Lynne Stokes:
contrarian:
Can we get back to the African MUSIC?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Have heard some people even think Beethoven had some Moorish heritage !...
There is Congo Square - in New Orleans - a specific place where Slaveholders allowed Slaves to Dance & even Drum on a weekend - under their gaze & control. The first the Oppressor always did in both Manifest Destiny & Slavery & Colonization - was destroy & suppress the Drum.
So to have allowed Drumming was a notable exception.
Some posit this as the precise crossover from Participatory African Tradition - to Performance for the dominant Culture in the Americas...
PaulRobeson1925:
Lynne Stokes:
AMYGDALA:
Paul Szepesvary:
PaulRobeson1925:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
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Fragonard:
chresti:
Fragonard:
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Fragonard:
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Fragonard:
luca:
PaulRobeson1925:
slugluv1313:
and true -- Africans were enslaved in Europe way before they were in the lands now known as "the Americas"
(and slavery itself goes way back, to biblical and other mythological times -- however, my impression is that those who were enslaved were the losers of *whatever* battle/conflict -- i do not know when it changed into an institution based on the relatively new concept of "race")
Fragonard:
comrade_bren:
Pianoman:
slugluv1313:
did not know this music's history -- thank you!
tom tom the pipers son:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Terence McKenna points that such consequences make the associated effects of any other Substance or Drug pale by comparison. Add the effects of Sugar on everyone's Health - & it's a major event in the History of anything. Again - Slavery was nothing without Sugar he posits.
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Jherweg:
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Bobby:
PaulRobeson1925:
Fragonard:
Fragonard:
AMYGDALA:
That was brutal, and it irked me. You guys are over-the-top informed.
That is all.
Roberto:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
The box set of Kerouac recordings is essential to me.
Peter from Saranac Lake NY:
PaulRobeson1925:
Fragonard:
tom tom the pipers son:
tom tom the pipers son:
Roberto:
PaulRobeson1925:
Fragonard:
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annette:
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annette:
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Fragonard:
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AskJoe:
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Ken From Hyde Park:
Roberto:
PaulRobeson1925:
Now, isn’t it a shame?
How we break each other’s hearts
And cause each other pain
How we take each other’s love…
Fragonard:
slugluv1313:
hiya, Ken FHP!
slugluv1313:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
This is what I expect from him.
chresti:
slugluv1313:
Fragonard:
Fragonard:
slugluv1313:
Roberto:
Fragonard:
Ken From Hyde Park:
Fragonard:
Roberto:
chresti:
slugluv1313:
felines have been in their usual "Heat Seeking Element" mode 😸😸
hope all is warm and dry with you too!
chresti:
slugluv1313:
AMYGDALA:
annette:
slugluv1313:
Fragonard:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
~ TY Always DJs CGCBs ~
ViolaChica: