2022

S1.E1 ∙ Funk Paulista

Mon, Oct 24, 2022

In the premiere episode, we join digital influencer and funk icon Fraan Ferreira (Sintonia), on a journey about São Paulo's funk scene as a musical genre and cultural movement throughout different hoods of the city.

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S1.E2 ∙ Brega Funk

Mon, Oct 31, 2022

Raíssa Dias is a young singer and songwriter from the Salgadinho community in Olinda. Empowered, she is the one who takes us on a journey through the Brega Funk beat, a mixture of the omnipresent romantic brega with the funk beat and its multiple ramifications that conquered Brazil.

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S1.E3 ∙ Reggaeton

Mon, Nov 07, 2022

During the third episode of The Beat Diaspora, Puerto Rican rising singer Nohemy shows us how and why this Afro-Latin-Caribbean beat, a kind of mix between Jamaican dancehall and US hip-hop with local spices, has become the most heard pop music worldwide.

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S1.E4 ∙ Dancehall

Mon, Nov 14, 2022

Jamaica 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.

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S1.E5 ∙ Bahia Eletrônica

Mon, Nov 21, 2022

What (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.

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S1.E6 ∙ Afrobeats

Mon, Nov 28, 2022

After 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.

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