Across the Airwaves: Exploring Kurdish Identity Through Radio Broadcasting

Update: 2023-05-15

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Jon Bullock, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music, joins Ariana Hones (M.Div ’25) for a conversation on how radio is used as a tool for shaping Kurdish identity. Using the lens of ethnomusicology and the sacred, Jon discusses the impacts of colonialism and technologies of sound, such recording and broadcasting on Kurdish music.

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Across the Airwaves: Exploring Kurdish Identity Through Radio Broadcasting

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Across the Airwaves: Exploring Kurdish Identity Through Radio Broadcasting

Yale Institute of Sacred Music

Across the Airwaves: Exploring Kurdish Identity Through Radio Broadcasting