Rebecca Dirksen, PhD

Music scholar | Pianist | Author: After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti (#OUP 2020)

[Rebecca Dirksen, PhD @AftertheDance]

Aw, thank you! You've given me a challenge @HAMOC1791! This book is in part a detailed listening guide to dozens of songs & music videos. How to choose from among the many artists profiled & the musico-political debates of carnival?! A selection to follow.

#HaitianHeritageMonth

[Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC) @hamoc1804]

Today, we suggest After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy by Rebecca Dirkson. In this study of Haitian music, carnival, and politics, Dirkson shows how the interplay of the three and popular engagement shapes life in Haiti's public sphere.

#HaitianHeritageMonth

[Michaël Brun @MichaelBrun]

Produced by @DMile85! First songwriter in history to win Song Of The Year 2 years in a row. And he’s Haitian 🇭🇹

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

Once again Barbados PM Mia Mottley has been the one who has delivered the speech the world needed. May she be heard, may we rise. Take 8 minutes to listen to the whole thing. Share the lines that grabbed you most. #COP26

[Tilou JEAN PAUL @TilouJeanPaul]

https://t.co/lJ8P3atsg2

[Tilou JEAN PAUL @TilouJeanPaul]

Top Girls premier groupe entièrement composé de Femme, fondé et dirigé par le Maestro Alfred Moise de l'Orchestre Septentrional , circa 1970. (Courtoisie Linda Lambert)

[Amb. Allemagne Haiti @AmbAlleHt]

Merci James Germain et @UNFPAHaiti de nous a fait découvrir les tambours sacrés d‘Ayiti. Cette soirée au @cda_haiti nous a donné tant d‘espoir pour le pays si éprouvé. Une fois encore l’art et la culture nous ont fait vivre le vrai Ayiti et sa tolérance profonde. @FOKAL_Ayiti

[MNG - University Presses @MNGUP_Books]

NEW IN
PERFORMING ENVIRONMENTALISMS, ed. by @JohnHMcDowell1, Katherine Borland, @AftertheDance & Sue Tuohy, examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet @IllinoisPress
Buy now: https://t.co/2WxS3s6lOf

[Melinda Miles @melindayiti]

Happening now: @wyclef performing in front of a detention center. "Playing something for my people behind the fence," he says, at the award ceremony for @GuerlineMJozef @HaitianBridge @RFKHumanRights

[Melinda Miles @melindayiti]

Which of my Boston area friends is inviting me up this weekend so we can go to this show?!? I mean, @RAMhaiti plus @BoukmanEKS plus @eddyfrancois?!?!?!

[Rebecca Dirksen, PhD @AftertheDance]

@DrSepinwall 2 / Filmed in the regions of Kenscoff, Fermate, and Pelerin. Looking out over Port-au-Prince from the mountains above.

[Rebecca Dirksen, PhD @AftertheDance]

@DrSepinwall 1a / The symbolism intended by placing Kompè Filo and BIC back to back while circling around them with the camera is about how all generations are bound up together in facing shifting climates and environments, and cooperation and sharing wisdom is essential.

[Rebecca Dirksen, PhD @AftertheDance]

@DrSepinwall 1b / Children and youth are key to environmental responses as well, and in the video they are shown helping to plant trees. And as the elders pass on (as Kompè Filo has), others will rise and stand tall, like the mapou.

[Rebecca Dirksen, PhD @AftertheDance]

@DrSepinwall Easy to share! Please do use this with your students! https://t.co/WXFzOEbyTN Also, we have publications on the project and methodology to accompany. I can point you toward those if of interest.

[Rebecca Dirksen, PhD @AftertheDance]

@DrSepinwall @MakandalBK Thanks for a lovely review, Lois, and thanks Alyssa, for highlighting it!

[Dr. Régine #NoNewUSOccupation Jean-Charles @reineayiti]

Thank you @FictionsofHaiti for doing the good work of disabusing us of fictions about Haiti!—“Haiti Isn't Cursed. It is Exploited” https://t.co/jJUjaGfphX

[Lunionsuite 🇭🇹 @LunionSuite]

Good Morning from Gelée! Gelée is a village in Les Cayes in the south of Haïti. 🇭🇹

[Dr. Régine #NoNewUSOccupation Jean-Charles @reineayiti]

Is suffering or resilience fatigue a thing? I’m trying to find words to describe the unsettling feelings I have whenever people say “oh no not Haiti again!” Or “can’t Haïti catch a break” or “why is it always Haiti?” But I don’t have the words… #haitipapperi

[Dr. Régine #NoNewUSOccupation Jean-Charles @reineayiti]

My latest for @BostonGlobe was inspired by a recent conversation. about #Haiti "What Haitians need now" https://t.co/qFrKDHfsyb via @BostonGlobe

[Rebecca Dirksen, PhD @AftertheDance]

May 18 = Haitian Flag Day. #Ayiti #Freedom #jistis #solidarity #1804 🇭🇹 https://t.co/DDHAFvdO62

[Rebecca Dirksen, PhD @AftertheDance]

This is why public universities matter.

[CedarBough Saeji @TheKpopProf]

This was in an email from @IUBloomington (or the whole IU system) and I have to say it makes me proud. #PublicUniversities provide a very needed service for their communities.

[Rebecca Dirksen, PhD @AftertheDance]

Sometimes I need to just block everything else out and listen. Composer / pianist David Bontemps's "Angélus" #Haiti @DavidBontempsMu : https://t.co/cdcPeDQ3Fd