From Mahraganat to Shaabi with special guest Andrew Simon

 

TONIGHT from 7-10 PM EDT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, Bodega Pop will be taking something of an audio tour of Andrew Simon’s new book Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt. Simon joins the broadcast (at approx. 7:30 pm)  to explore how Cairo street music mahraganat—and the official attempts to censor it—began decades earlier with shaabi, a form of folk music from northern Egypt, popular on cassette.

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On the DL: Stalking Duppi | 7-10 PM EDT

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, we'll listen to Japanese '80s underground from 45s, LPs, and flexi-discs downloaded from the late, great music blog, Stalking Duppi.

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Asakawa Maki 1970-80 | 7-10 PM EDT

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, Bodega Pop spins an all-vinyl immersion into the first decade of Asakawa Maki (浅川マキ), one of Japan's most beloved underground singers, featuring some of her greatest folk, blues, jazz, and avant-garde tracks

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