EPISODE · Mar 31, 2024 · 49 MIN
Chapter VI: Brave New Afro-pop
from Nice Black Aussies
Aboard the trans-Atlantic Slave ships from Africa, Rumba music was a stowaway. At their final destinations, the African traditional music absorbed Caribbean and Spanish culture. In the 1930s Rumba then found its way back to its place of birth, through the absorption and reinterpretation of Cuban Records in Congo. The music is still on the move across Africa, and Europe. Now Australia asks for some.
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Chapter VI: Brave New Afro-pop
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