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61) Egyptian Jazz
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Egypt's traditional musical styles combine with timeless jazz classics. Explore Cairo's new venues and artists keen to make sure this unique musical style continues to thrive.
62) Multimedia Stars
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African artists across different platforms - blogs, television and Instagram, for example - leave their mark on the world.
63) Contact Sports
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A Nigerian UFC fighter making a name for himself; South Africa's top female bantamweight MMA; an Olympic taekwondo athlete in Senegal training those hoping to follow in his path.
66) Music Men
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South African artist White Zulu's passion for maskandi music; a modern dance hall star brought Jamaican vibes to Zimbabwe; a musician's chance to become a star in Nairobi.
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How does a new artist attract the attention of a recording company? How do recording companies find new talent? Can a big-name label make a run-of-the-mill CD into a platinum seller? In this program, top industry executives and other experts answer these and other questions, such as how much performers can expect to make in royalties, how SoundScan has revealed the true top 100, and how MTV has raised the bar for performer talent. In addition, brief...
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Professor Amanda Vickery's journey to uncover the story of female creativity reaches the 18th century. The focus turns to the industrial powerhouse that is Britain and the glittering French court of Marie Antoinette. Despite being regarded as second class citizens when it came to art, this was an era when ingenious women seized a galaxy of fresh opportunities to stamp their creativity on the age; from a designer who would revitalize the British silk...
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Based on the writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson, this A&E Special showcases the artwork of acclaimed artist Mort Kunstler, whose paintings and illustrations - hailed for their historical accuracy and attention to detail - offer stunning views of Civil War scenes that were left undepicted by the battlefield photographers and artists of the day. In addition, dramatic reenactments portray the chaos and brutality of major clashes...
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The Spain of Philip II's time was a place of great cultural accomplishment as some of history's most renowned writers, artists, and philosophers created works of lasting significance. This program looks at the Renaissance as it flourished in Spain during the 16th century and Philip's role in it as a scholar and patron of the arts. Fernando Checa, director of the Museo del Prado, is featured.
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Revered for his political insights as well as his dreamlike images, the Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo produced a stunning body of work and an indelible artistic legacy. This program offers an eye-opening look at Alvarez Bravo's century of life and achievement, featuring interviews with the elderly artist and with others in his circle of friends and colleagues. Examples of his work-as well as archival footage and photographs of Alvarez...
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This music-infused cinematic portrait of world famous Senegalese pop star Youssou N'Dour follows the artist during the contentious period of time around the release of his album Egypt, a deeply spiritual album dedicated to a more tolerant view of Islam. While Western audiences embraced N'Dour's brave musical message, it encountered a serious religious backlash in his native country of Senegal where N'Dour is considered a national hero. Local critics...
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In this lecture, William Kentridge explores the concepts of self and other, transformation and deformation, and translation and mistranslation by yoking together the African funerary sculpture called an asen, a film loop of a panther pacing in its cage, Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Der Panther," Albrecht Dürer's woodcut of a rhinoceros created from bits of second-hand description, and Pablo Picasso's bronze sculpture of a she-goat cast from an assemblage...
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In part 2 of the series The Art of China, Andrew Graham-Dixon travels to the Yellow Mountains in southern China to understand the power of Chinese landscape painting. The period from the 10th to the 15th century-from the Song to the Ming dynasties-was the golden age of art in China. Andrew discovers an emperor so in love with art and beauty that he neglected to rule his country and scholar artists who fled the Mongol invasion to immerse themselves...
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This program features some of the finest musicians of India: Ali Akbar Khan, Alla Rakha, Amjad Khan, Hariprasad Chaurasia, and Ravi Shankar. Each a supreme virtuoso of his instrument, the artists perform ragas that illustrate the range, scope, and texture of Indian classical music.
78) Women of Melody
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We follow Angelique Kidjo, the Grammy-winning living legend from Benin, as she prepares for a big performance and profile two other rising stars from Uganda and Ghana.
79) Through the Lens
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Take a dive with a photographer in Mauritius, a Senegalese artist blurs the lines between photography and painting, and a Tunisian journalist uses mobile journalism to document rapid changes in his country.
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The achievements of Frederick Douglass are well known, as are those of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and other heroic African-Americans during the Civil War period. Fewer people have ever heard of Robert Smalls, Phyllis Wheatley, Elizabeth Keckley, Benjamin Banneker, or countless others of African descent who helped to build the American nation. Regardless of renown or obscurity, all the aforementioned names deserve ongoing, in-depth study in U.S....