World Music

Konkombe is an extraordinary journey into the musical kaleidoscope of juju, Afrobeat, highlife, Afro-pop, and Lagos street music that makes up the Nigerian pop music scene. … More

Song list:

1. Danny Boy
2. Carrickfergus
3. Meeting of the Waters/Rose of Mooncoin
4. My Lagan Love
5. From Clare to Here (with Ralph McTell)
6. The Green … More

Rhythm of Resistance crosses the forbidden boundaries of apartheid and looks at the sorrow and joy of Black South African music. Music that had been ignored, censored or sup… More

Jazz trumpet virtuoso Hugh Masekela was born in South Africa and first played in bands there before being exiled from his native land for more than 30 years. After achieving musica… More

Long before World Music became a record store staple, Americans were singing along to the sweet sounds of Celia Cruz and dancing to the rhythmic beats of Tito Puente.

Harry Bel… More

Roots, Rock, Reggae presents a street-level perspective on the reggae music scene during a very important period in the evolution of reggae music. In the late 1970s, police … More

Tex-Mex looks at the border region along the Rio Grande that separates Texas and Mexico and how, against the combustible background of violence, illegal immigrants, drug running an… More

The Complete Irish Tenors on DVD features both of the spectacular PBS broadcast concerts (Dublin and Belfast) in their entirety, including performances not available on any … More

Shotguns and Accordions looks at vallenata, the hot, jumpy dance music of Columbia found in the area with one of the worst concentrations of organized crime and drug trade i… More

The first DVD of this set, called "Ravi Shankar -- Between Two Worlds," is the definitive account of India's most celebrated musician and follows two years of Ravi Shankar's life -… More

Marking the seventh anniversary of South Africa's free elections, the 2001 South Africa Freedom Day Concert was celebrated in London's famed Trafalgar Square. More than 20,000 peop… More

Despite a cover that promises a wild ride through Carnival in Brazil and performances by Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento (whose name is misspelled on the DVD cover), this is rea… More

This fascinating look at the Grammy Award-winning Los Super Seven follows the band from studio sessions to the release of their album "Canto" and onto the concert stage. The critic… More

This 1979 documentary profiles the hot Afro-Latin dance music called salsa, a zesty marriage of North American jazz, Puerto Rican bomba/plena, and Cuban mambo, rumba, danzon, and… More