Afropunk Festival

Afropunk Festival is an annual arts festival that features music, film, fashion, and art produced by alternative black artists.

Afropunk Festival
2013 Afropunk Festival
Years active2005-Present
Websiteafropunk.com

The Afropunk Festival began in 2005, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. Afropunk Festivals have also been held in various major cities, including Atlanta, Paris, London, Salvador, Brazil, and Johannesburg, South Africa. The festival was co-founded by James Spooner and Matthew Morgan, and grew out of the 2003 documentary titled Afro-Punk which studied black punks across America.[1]

History
See also: Afro-Punk (film)

2005-2008

In the early years, the festival was targeted towards black alternative-minded punks. The festival was free and supported by The Brooklyn Academy of Music. As the festival grew, the musical genres shifted towards reaching a larger audience and the festival also began charging an admission fee.[2] Due to festival alterations that deviated from the original Afropunk culture, former co-founder, James Spooner ended his involvement in 2008.[3]

2009-2019

Jocelyn A. Cooper became involved with the festival in 2009. Afropunk Festival grew to hundreds and thousands of attendees,[4] expanding into the cities of Atlanta, Paris, London, Johannesburg South Africa, Salvador, Brazil, Miami, and Minneapolis.[5]

2020-Present

Afropunk is acquired by entrepreneur Richelieu Dennis and Essence Ventures.[6]

Criticisms

Having emerged from political punk roots, Afropunk Festival has faced criticism at times,[7] including backlash over booking artists such as MIA,[8] Ice Cube[9] and Tyler the Creator.[10]

Attendees have also critiqued the values of Afropunk's organizers surrounding LGBQT concerns, treatment of employees, and its corporate leanings. Some attendees critique the festival for appealing to white audiences,[11] including an instance of attendees being removed from an area of the festival for wearing a homemade t-shirt critical of the event.[12] In August of 2018, Afropunk's Editor-In-Chief resigned after over a decade of work for Afropunk citing mistreatment and a corporate agenda he labeled "performative activism".[13][14]

Performers

Brooklyn, July 3-8, 2009

[15]

  • Pure Hell
  • Whole Wheat Bread
  • American Fangs
  • Game Rebellion
  • The Objex
  • Joya Bravo
  • Living Colour
  • Earl Grey Hound
  • Tamar Kali
  • The London Souls
  • Apollo Heights
  • Sabatta
  • Saul Williams
  • Janelle Monáe
  • The Dallas Austin Experience
  • Elevator Fight
  • Chewing Pic's
  • Peekaboo Theory
  • Blackie

Brooklyn, June 25-27, 2010

[16]

  • Bad Brains
  • P.O.S
  • God Forbid
  • Ninjasonik
  • The 54
  • Cipher
  • Game Rebellion
  • The Bots
  • Belikos
  • Activator
  • DJ MU$A
  • DJ D://BOI
  • Mos Def
  • 24-7 Spyz
  • J*DaVeY
  • The Cool Kids
  • Martin Luther
  • K-OS
  • The Memorials
  • Bad Rabbits
  • Galaxy of Tar

2011 line-up

Cancelled due to Hurricane Irene.[17]

Brooklyn, August 25-26, 2012

[17]

  • Reggie Watts
  • Janelle Monáe
  • Erykah Badu
  • Gym Class Heroes
  • Straight Line Stitch
  • DJ Smoke L.E.S.
  • Joe Jordan's Experiment
  • The Supasonics
  • E.Z. Mo Breezy of Grits & Biscuits
  • Purple Ferdinand
  • Flatbush Zombies
  • Sinkane
  • Venus x GHE20 G0TH1K
  • TV On The Radio
  • Oxymorron
  • Alice Smith
  • Tess
  • Roofeeo
  • Stack-Aly
  • Inky Jack
  • Radkey
  • Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely
  • Ninjasonik
  • The Memorials
  • Spank Rock
  • The Skins
  • Cerebal Ballzy
  • Gordon Voidwell
  • Bad Rabbits
  • Toro Y Moi
  • Das Racist
  • Phony Ppl
  • Body Language

Brooklyn, August 24-25, 2013

[18]

  • Wicked Wisdom
  • Living Colour
  • Roofeo
  • DJ mOma
  • Chuck D & DJ Lord
  • ?uestlove
  • Death
  • The Heavy
  • Trash Talk
  • Danny Brown
  • Saul Williams
  • Theophilus London
  • Vintage Trouble
  • The London Souls
  • The Coup
  • Mykki Blanco
  • k-os
  • Big Freedia
  • Rye Rye
  • Le1f
  • Jean Grae
  • CX KIDTRONIK
  • The Dust Rays
  • The Skins
  • MEAΔTLOAF MUZIK
  • Rebelmatic
  • Unlocking the Truth
  • Sunny Gang
  • Pyyramids
  • MikeQ
  • Mess Kid
  • The White Mandingos
  • Sebastian
  • DJ Mr. Hernandez
  • PatPervert
  • Mursi Layne
  • UNIIQU3
  • J Lamar
  • Small Axe
  • Stack-Aly
  • Prince Paul
  • Mick Collins
  • Larry B
  • Teachers

Brooklyn, August 23-24, 2014

[19]

Brooklyn, August 22-23, 2015

[20]

Brooklyn, August 27-28, 2016

[21]

Brooklyn, August 26-27, 2017

[22]

Paris, July 14-15, 2018

[23]

Brooklyn, August 25-26, 2018

[23]

Atlanta, October 13-14, 2018

[23]

Johannesburg, December 30-31, 2018

[24]

Paris, July 13-14, 2019

[25]

Brooklyn, August 24-25, 2019

[26]

Atlanta, October 12-13, 2019

[27]

Virtual, October 23-25, 2020

[28]

  • Afrobapho
  • Afrocidade feat. Majur and Mahal Pita
  • Ari Lennox
  • Arka’n Asrafokor
  • ASIATICA
  • ÀTTØØXXÁ feat. Hiran
  • Balimaya Project
  • Blac Rabbit
  • BLACK HAÜS
  • Bongeziwe Mabandla
  • Bootsy Collins
  • Common
  • DJ Poison Ivy
  • DJ Ruckus
  • Dua Saleh
  • Duckwrth
  • DUMA
  • Duo B.A.V.I.
  • Durand Bernarr
  • Ecko Bazz
  • Elaine
  • Jahmed
  • Johnny Cradle
  • Jonah Mutono
  • KIRBY
  • Larissa Luz + Carlinhos Brown
  • Loshh
  • Lous and the Yakuza
  • Masego
  • Mayra Andrade
  • MC Yallah
  • Mereba
  • Meshell N’Dege Ocello
  • Moonchild Sanelly
  • Moonga K.
  • Moses Sumney
  • Muneyi
  • Muzi
  • Nêssa
  • Rebelmatic
  • Sampa The Great
  • serpentwithfeet
  • Smino
  • Solo Ntsizwa Ka Mthimkhulu
  • Songhoy Blues
  • T. Nava
  • Tawiah
  • TCIYF
  • The Veldt
  • Theon Cross
  • Tiana Major9
  • Tiwa Savage
  • Tobe Nwigwe
  • Tomi Agape
  • TrapFunk & Alívio
  • Ukhoikhoi
  • Virus
  • Yan Cloud
  • Yves Tumor

Atlanta, September 25-26, 2021

[29][30]

Miami, May 20-22, 2022

[31]

Minneapolis, June 18-19, 2022

[32]

Brooklyn, September 10-11, 2022

[33]

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