AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange
Haiti: One Day, One Story/The Other Side of the Water: The Journey of Haitan Ra Ra Band (#301)
Haiti: One Day, One Story - Haitian-American filmmaker Michele Stephenson visits Haiti six weeks after one of the world's most devastating earthquakes to document the personal stories of the Haitian people.
The Other Side of the Water: The Journey of Haitan Ra Ra Band - On Sunday nights during the summer, thousands of people gather in Brooklyn's Prospect Park to watch a motley band of young musicians carrying traditional drums, bamboo tubes and four-foot-long pressed-tin horns. They play Ra Ra music - a mix of Carnival, vodou ceremony and grassroots protest - which originally served as a voice for the slaves in their revolt against the French and of those struggling against ongoing dictatorships in Haiti. This documentary focuses on Pe Yves, the leader of the Ra Ra movement in New York, who is caught in the middle of a struggle for the meaning of Haitian identity. [82 minutes]
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Series Description: AFROPOP: THE ULTIMATE CULTURAL EXCHANGE, the innovative documentary series on contemporary life, art and pop culture in the African Diaspora. Four films introduce powerful stories: African boxers journey across the Atlantic to match their skills against the best in the world; a teenage girl travels to Ghana and an expatriate from Sierra Leone returns to his homeland, each hoping to dispel prevailing myths about the two countries; and, Hurricane Katrina victims find themselves refugees in their own country.
All Upcoming Episodes
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Riseup (#303)
Follow some up-and-coming voices in Jamaica's music scene. [56 minutes]
- Mon, June 10, 5:00 PM on IPTV World
- Mon, June 10, 8:00 PM on IPTV World
- Tue, June 11, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
- Tue, June 11, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
- Tue, June 11, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
- Sat, June 15, 4:00 AM on IPTV World
- Sun, June 16, 10:00 PM on IPTV World
- Mon, June 17, 2:00 AM on IPTV World
- Mon, June 17, 10:00 AM on IPTV World
Past Episodes
These episodes of AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
- Calypso Rose: The Lioness of the Jungle (#404)
- Burning in the Sun (#402)
- That's My Face (#403)
- Everyday Sunshine (#401)
- Mrs. Goundo's Daughter (#305)
- Uprooted & Sanza Hanza (#304)
- Stolen (#504)
- 125 Franco's Boulevard/Nora (#302)
- Haiti: One Day, One Story/The Other Side of the Water: The Journey of Haitan Ra Ra Band (#301)
- Riseup (#303)
- Dear Mandela (#502)
- A Lot Like You (#501)