Global A Go-Go presents:
Shoulder dance
You might know it as the Harlem shake. But like a lot of American dance crazes, it actually started in Africa. The characteristic shoulder popping of the Harlem shake looks a whole lot like the traditional Ethiopian dance called esketsa (literally “dancing shoulders”). On this episode of Global A Go-Go, you’ll hear the “chic-chic-ka” rhythm, the one you do the esketsa to, as performed by artists from Ethiopia, Djibouti and the USA.
Also this week (Monday June 22, 3:00-5:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site): British electric folk with a psychedelic haze; modern highlife from 1980 and 2020; four new reggae singles; a set of vintage Brazilian samba-soul; and the rhythms of Cote D’Ivoire’s coupe decale.
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Show Archive
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a GO-GO”
from Global a Go-Go
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001
England UK
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Trimdon Grange Explosion, “Poor Wayfaring Stranger”
1058496 Records DK - 2018
England UK
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Sandy Denny, “Blackwaterside”
from The North Star Grassman And The Ravens
Universal-Island Records Ltd. - 1971
England UK
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Groupe RTD, “Buuraha U Dheer (The Highest Mountains)”
from The Dancing Devils of Djibouti
Ostinato Records LLC - 2020
Djibouti
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Mahmoud Ahmed, “Anchi Bale Gamme”
from The Best Of... Tizita Vol. 1
AIT Records, Inc. - 2003
Ethiopia
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Meklit, “You Are My Luck (feat. Preservation Hall Horns)”
from When the People Move, the Music Moves Too
Six Degrees - 2017
Ethiopia-USA
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Michael Mendez, “Love T.K.O.”
from Love T.K.O. - single
Purple Lion Entertainment - 2020
Jamaica-England UK
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Inna de Yard & Horace Andy, “Skylarking”
Wagram Music / Chapter Two Records - 2020
France-Jamaica
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Douk Saga, “Sagacité”
from Côte d'Ivoire 1960-2010, Vol. 3 (Histoire de la musique contemporaine moderne)
Musiki - 2005
Cote D'Ivoire
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Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go June 22nd, 2020
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