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New Africa Passion & Beyond

By yalepodcasts | April 27, 2022

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ISM fellow and composer Bongani Ndodana-Breen explores his latest composition fusing gospel text, pan-African sound, and the passion tradition. He also chats about his earlier operatic work that engages the sounds and figures of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle.

Channeling Christianity in Kenya

By yalepodcasts | May 17, 2021

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

By yalepodcasts | May 17, 2021

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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.