Bridge City #BAM
Sunday: 2pm – 3pm
Sunday: 2pm – 3pm
Bridge City #BAM
Sunday: 2pm – 3pm
#BAM = Black American Music
“The Black American Music Movement is about setting straight what has been knocked out of alignment by mislabeling and marketing strategies.” – Nicholas Payton
Welcome to Bridge City #BAM, where we play music by, and inspired by, Black American Artists.
When given a moment’s thought, this theme reveals itself to be a vast umbrella. In examining the history of American music one finds it has always been pioneered, by and large, by Black culture. Additionally, a consistent pattern exists in which credit and control are taken from Black artists. The hijacked music is minstrelized, commodified and repackaged in order to fit inside the capitalist structure of Western colonial society.
This is not a Jazz show. To paraphrase Nicholas Payton, Jazz is just a four-letter word. Instead we explore a wide variety of Black American Music and in doing so begin to understand the ancestral lineage which connects them.
Hosted by Cyrus Nabipoor
Email: cyrus@prp.fm
Recent Playlists
Jan. 24, 2021
I Want You | Erykah Badu |
You Got Me | The Roots |
Free | Goodie Mob |
Hardgroove | The RH Factor |
How Much A Dollar Cost – Live | R+R=NOW |
Don’t Dog the Source – Instrumental | Jeremy Pelt |
Vartha | Joel Ross |
79rs Bout to Blow | 79rs Gang |
I Ain’t Gonna Stand For It | Stevie Wonder |
Same Old Story | Stevie Wonder |
Have A Talk With God | Stevie Wonder |
Jan. 17, 2021
My People | Cha Wa |
Mardi Gras In New Orleans | Big Sam’s Funky Nation |
Pinocchio | Mike Dillon |
DICtATUr | Context Killer |
Luigi’s Mansion Theme | The 8-Bit Big Band |
Sloganize, Patronize, Revolutionize (Black Lives Matters) | Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra |
Harris Laughing | Harold Battiste |
Jones’n | Alan Jones |
Ferguson – An American Tradition | Immanuel Wilkins |
Sea Change | Black Diamond |
Black Boy Joy | Amari Ansari |
Naysayer | Amari Ansari |
Extravagent Intro | Wino Willie |
Kiochi | AFKA |
Sea Cave Joint | Friendkerrek |
Jan. 10, 2021
Samurai | Brad Walker |
FIGHTING | Brown Branch |
The Other Lover | Moses Sumney |
Strap Yourself Down | Busta Rhymes |
Yeah | Xavier Molina |
Sputnik | Maria Schneider |
Warriors | Immanuel Wilkins |
Don’t Make off With My Love | J & the Causeways |
Hey Honeymoon | RMR |
Fluff | Tank and the Bangas |
Strange Fruit | Billie Holiday |
Ride | Barra Brown |
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | Gil Scott-Heron |
Jan. 3, 2021
Cocoa Coffee | Mltzr |
Cel U Lar Device | Erykah Badu |
Take Back the NIght | Justin Timberlake |
Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing | Stevie Wonder |
Now Or Never | Kendrick Lamar |
You’re Still A Young Man | Tower of Power |
Halo | Beyonce |
Pony | Ginuwine |
Serpantine Fire | Earth, Wind & Fire |
I Wanna Dance With Somebody | Whitney Houston |
Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ | Michael Jackson |
Gamin’ On Ya | Parliament |