"Noble Champions" Podcast W/Santigold Asks "What Exactly Is Black Music?"

 Philadelphia is definitely on a roll. The Phillies made it to baseball's World Series and shocked the pundits. Football's Eagles are undefeated at this point, and soccer's MLS Union team was penalty kicks away from winning the league championship. 

In podcasting, Philadelphia's own musical champ, Santigold (aka Santi White), is now hosting a podcast from Talkhouse called Noble Champions. Santigold once described her music as, "spanning punk rock, hip-hop, and dance music," and her genre bending talent may be a major reason why she's been a force in the music business for more than14 years.

In the second episode of Noble Champions, Santigold is joined by longtime friends Questlove, Angela Yee and Tunde Adebimpe to try to tackle the question, "What exactly is Black Music?"

They discuss what happens when Black artists step out of the genre box, as well as the bigger impact of caging in music and those who make it. They also geek out on Bad Brains, Fela Kuti, Nina Simone, The Last Poets and more you can check out here: https://pod.link/NobleChampions

The next episode of Noble Champions will welcome Olivia Wilde, and the season includes artists, activists and innovative thinkers like Idris Elba, Saul Williams and many others. The podcast's title is inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, who was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Kandinsky once said that periods during which art has no noble champions are ones of retrogression. Santigold and "fellow champions" try to make sense out of our world, and push culture forward.

Talkhouse has been become known for artist-centric, first-person programming with Santigold's Noble Champions, as well as Kimbra's Playing With Fire podcast. Talkhouse's recent podcast series also include Björk: Sonic Symbolism and Listening, plus new seasons from Sing For Science, That's How I Remember It With Craig Finn, and the recent addition of A Little Bit Culty.