[FA Worldmusic] hip life (Ghana) and coupé-décalé (Ivory Coast)

Sean Barlow Sean at afropop.org
Fri Apr 13 17:49:10 EDT 2007


Hello all-Today's African youth music such as hip life from Ghana and
coupi-dicali from Ivory Coast is largely under the radar screen. These styles
get almost zero attention from roots-loving world music fans. But there is
some good stuff out there. Here's our new Co-Producer, Siddhartha Mitter's
conversations with some of the leading experts on these styles:

http://www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/709



Discography for Hip life and coupi-dicali:

http://www.afropop.org/multi/discography/ID/674



Banning Eyre's review of Tinariwen's "Aman Iman: Water is Life" (World
Village):

http://www.afropop.org/explore/album_review/ID/3279


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