Tag: Voudon

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.