Afrocentric Sounds Radio: Classical Music from the African Diaspora
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An American in Paris / Gershwin
Dean Dixon & The Vienna Symphony Orchestra
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R Jones
13 minutes ago
Prayer - Leslie Adams
Benjamin Matthews
16 minutes ago
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot-Johnson
Robert McFerrin
18 minutes ago
When Night Descends (In the Silence of the Night) (Rachmaninoff), 7/1/
Marian Anderson, contralto
20 minutes ago
Lord, I Don't Know
Inez Matthews
23 minutes ago
About
Afrocentric Sounds Radio is a free, online radio station featuring classical music written and/or performed by the African diaspora. Afrocentric Sounds Radio has a pretty eclectic program of music, reflecting the influence of other music styles--Spirituals, Ragtime, Jazz, Blues, Gospel, and other popular and folk music--on the creation and interpretation of classical music. The station also reflects the presence of Afrocentricity in Europe and the Americas. This is a place where the performance of Beethoven or Bach resides comfortably with compositions by Joplin, Ellington, Bonds, etc. The goal? To provide a broadcast venue for recordings that are currently underrepresented on mainstream classical radio in the hope that those hearing this glorious music for the first time will want to make it a part of that mainstream.