Department of Music

Ruby Erickson Produces Podcast about Cabo Verdean Music

PhD Candidate in Musicology & Ethnomusicology Ruby Erickson produced "Sounds from the Eleventh Star" with Cabo Verdean-American performer and scholar Candida Rose Baptista.

Sounds from the Eleventh Star is a podcast about Cabo Verdean music in the United States diaspora, featuring lively interviews with those who create, perform, and enjoy these musical traditions. In its first season, available now, the podcast covers topics ranging from Cabo Verdean Carnaval processions, to improvisatory batuku philosophers, to guitar virtuosos! This project is a work of collaborative scholarship, co-hosted by Brown University Musicology & Ethnomusicology PhD candidate Ruby Erickson and Cabo Verdean-American performer and scholar Candida Rose Baptista. The podcast is available at the Orkka International website.