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View in your browser ON AIR THIS WEEK:  The Zim Dancehall Story  This week's episode is inspired by Jamaica's dancehall music from the '90s and early 2000s. Zimbabwean dancehall music (Zimdancehall) started out as an underground subculture in the townships, ghettos of Zimbabwe and is now the country's most popular genre. In this episode we'll trace the subgenre's rocky rise to the top and meet some of its founding pioneers.  Produced by Christina "DJ Kix" Mwaturura This past week we launched the Afropop Worldwide Vision Fund, a resource aimed at transforming our organization for the fast-changing cultural and media landscape of the 21st century. Your donations are already helping, so please keep them coming!   But there's something else you can do that won't cost a dime. Take out your cell phone and record a brief video of yourself recounting a favorite Afropop memory—a program, a concert, a romance, literally anything that might inspire others to join our cause. Short and sweet. No more than 15 seconds. Send your video to info@afropop.org and circulate it on your own social media with the hashtag #afropop35. On Afropop.org Season Seven of the Afropop Closeup podcasts continues with The Cavemen: Highlife in the Age of Afrobeats. In the age of slick, international Afrobeats music, and especially its epicenter, Lagos, Nigeria, one would not expect to find a group of 20-somethings composing and performing classic highlife music. But that is exactly what the two brothers known as The Cavemen do. And they're finding success with the formula as well. Produced and narrated by Fay Fay. Advertorial  Subscribe to Songlines magazine for a year and receive a complimentary copy of Oumou Sangaré's Timbuktu or Vieux Farka Touré's Les Racines CD from World Circuit Records. Songlines is the leading world music magazine covering music from traditional and popular to contemporary and fusion. Each issue comes with a 15-track compilation CD (also available as a download) featuring the very best new album releases. Simply use the code WORLDCIRCUIT when ordering any one of the Songlines annual subscription packages. Events Around New York Thurs., Aug.11 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. (Doors open 5:00 p.m.) CEELO GREEN AS..."SOUL BROTHA #100" (A JAMES BROWN TRIBUTE) KARL DENSON'S TINY UNIVERSE / DJ SET BY JONATHAN TOUBIN Central Park, Rumsey Playfield, Manhattan 10021 Tickets and Information  Fri., Aug. 12 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. URBAN BUSH WOMEN / CHERI L. STOKES Crotona Park 1700 Crotona Ave, The Bronx, 10457 Tickets and Information  FREE Sat., Aug. 13, 6-9 p.m. SHATTA WALE / WIYAALA / DJ FRESHYK Wiyaala is presented in association with National Ghana Parade Council's Ghanafest NY. Crotona Park 1700 Crotona Ave, The Bronx, 10457  Tickets and Information  FREE Sun., Aug. 14, 7:00 p.m. SANTANA AND EARTH WIND AND FIRE Miraculous Supernatural Tour 2022  PNC Bank Arts Center,Holmdel, NJ Tickets and Information Wed., Aug. 31,  8 p.m.–10 p.m. WYNTON MARSALIS AND THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA  Tickets and Information Afropop is always looking for editorial, development and membership interns. Click the link for more information. We Are Social! Support Afropop! Afropop Staff: Sean Barlow, Executive Producer Banning Eyre, Senior Editor Michael Jones, Chief Audio Engineer (jonesaudio.com) Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe, Director of New Media and Operations CC Smith, Editor at Large

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