Jonathan Henderson is a multi-instrumentalist active as a musician, producer, writer, and educator. He has produced recordings in the US and Senegal, created music and sound art for film, theater, and art installations, and regularly performs on the street and the stage. He is a co-founder of the transatlantic collaboration Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba, the intermedia ensemble Invisible, and the radical marching band Cakalak Thunder. Jonathan holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Duke University and is a Professor of Music at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Jonathan’s academic research concerns how local musical traditions are transformed through recording studio practice and come to articulate new meaning in their international circulation. He has many years of experience studying music from the Black Atlantic, from Brazil to Senegal to the US South. While pursuing his research, Jonathan remains active as an artist and performer. Most recently he produced the album “Routes” for his band Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba. The album was recorded both in Senegal and North Carolina and garnered critical acclaim from Songlines, Afropop Worldwide, The Financial Times, and Robert Christgau for Vice.
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