The Beat Diaspora
Season 1
Portrays the diaspora from the perspective of peripheral electronic music and presents music as a powerful platform for social transformation; a tool that gives young people a sense of belonging and makes dreams come true.
Where to Watch The Beat Diaspora • Season 1
6 Episodes
- TBA
E4TBAJamaica is an island in Africa that happens to be in the Caribbean. Gathering the greatest quantity (and quality) of musicians per square meter, this small island has always shaped the music heard today: from hip-hop to DJ culture; from electronic music to reggaeton; from afrobeats to the use of the studio as a musical instrument. - TBA
E5TBAWhat (Electronic) Bahia has? Fernanda Maia, singer, composer and percussionist of the band Afrocidade, answers this question in the fourth episode of The Beat Diaspora. In the world's blackest city outside the African continent, Salvador, ancestry and afro-descendance walk side by side with technology, innovation, and contemporaneity. It's the drum talking on equal terms with the machine. In Pelourinho, Ladeira Curuzu, Vila Laura, Nordeste de Amarelina, Cosme de Faria, Santo Antônio, and Candeal, Fernanda leads us through a true who is who in the Bahia music, bringing together past, present, and future. - TBA
E6TBAAfter a long journey through São Paulo, Recife, San Juan, Kingston and Salvador, we finish the first season of The Beat Diaspora where it all began, in... Africa. Due to the cultural and economic power that is Nigeria, as well as all its ancestral connection with Brazil, the genre chosen to close the series is the Afrobeats - which, as is quickly explained in the documentary, is quite distinct from Afrobeat. Contrary to the sound created and immortalized by Fela Kuti in the 70s, afrobeats is much more a movement or umbrella that characterizes the pop and electronic music produced in West Africa, than a musical genre.
