Funky Revolutions is based on the One. Since 1994, host Khalid and guests have invited you to groove & celebrate the history of Africana music - the African diaspora and its musical reflections around the world.

We explore the past, present and future of the funk. From introducing trip-hop to Montréal in the early 90’s, to supporting hip-hop’s underground, to presenting ethno-musicographies of jazz, soul, reggae and afro-funk, Funky Revolutions embraces all grooves & the revolutionary spirit of the Funk, from the Black Arts Movement of the 70s to Indigenous defiances & liberations in the (post) colonial world.

Every Saturday 2 - 4pm (EDT)

May 18, 2024: Politicizing the Music in the 70s (Pt V of Soul, Funk & Jazz in South Africa) & Antibalas

One last resonance this week from our series The Development of Funk, Soul and Jazz in South Africa in 2015. We present part V, The Politicization of the Music in 1970s apartheid South Africa, originally broadcast on March 7, 2015. You can hear more of the series in our archives. We start with a 2004 interview with afrobeat orchestra, Antibalas.

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