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    Uppers International: Dankasa

    Today's Top Tune comes to us all the way from Ghana and Togo and travels through time! A new collection of West African songs have been put together reflecting organ-driven Afro-Beat spanning 1972 through 1978 -- a time that fused Afro-American funk and jazz with local rhythms. Today's Top Tune is performed by Uppers International and is titled "Dankasa."

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    By Ariana Morgenstern • Aug 17, 2010 • 1 min read

    Today's Top Tune comes to us all the way from Ghana and Togo and travels through time! A new collection of West African songs have been put together reflecting organ-driven Afro-Beat spanning 1972 through 1978 -- a time that fused Afro-American funk and jazz with local rhythms. Today's Top Tune is performed by

    Uppers International and is titled "

    Dankasa".

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      Ariana Morgenstern

      Executive Producer, Music Department & Today's Top Tune

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