{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspacetimemusicpodcast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fsoul-makossa-a-transatlantic-conversation-7zNkQtEh","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Soul Makossa: A TransAtlantic Conversation","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/f0268882-2ef5-4b9f-a1d3-3878d8e737ab/a818e489-4df4-4e39-be5e-3e8dca17e4f9/stm-profile-pic.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/24c9ca86-d474-49ef-89cc-37a630f2c5e0\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Soul Makossa: A TransAtlantic Conversation\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"In this episode Lyd the SBW listens to Soul Makossa. Soul Makossa and its musical children exemplify the call-and-response nature of music. Black American music has its roots in west Africa. Enslaved Africans brought their musical traditions with them as they were sold across the Americas creating rhythms and music that would give birth to gospel, blues jazz, samba, rhumba, soul, funk, rock, r&b, pop, reggae, soca, bachata, merengue, house, hip-hop and innumerable sub-genres, including, makossa, a style of funk-dance music from Cameroon. Little tidbit, kossa means \"I dance\" in Duala. "}