Tag: Ben Bond

ISM Fellows in Conversation: Ep. 4: Music Research and Ecological Activism in Haiti

ISM Fellows in Conversation: Ep. 4: Music Research and Ecological Activism in Haiti

The ethnomusicologist Rebecca Dirksen discusses Haiti—a nation particularly vulnerable to climate change and subject to dire injustice in the aftermath of natural disasters—and the concept of Mizik Angaje, socially or politically engaged music within the context of Voudon traditions with Ben Bond, a Master of Divinity student at Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School.

ISM Fellows in Conversation: Ep. 3: Channeling Christianity in Kenya

ISM Fellows in Conversation: Ep. 3: Channeling Christianity in Kenya

The African musicologist Jean Ngoya Kidula talks about the multi-layered musical and religious landscape of Kenya, a crossroad of musical influences from Tanzania, Zimbabwe, the Congos, and South Africa with Ben Bond, a Master of Divinity student at Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School.