Diasporic Connections by Ellie Armon Azoulay

Sonic and visual explorations. Thoughts about music making, archives, photography, resistance and protest, community practice, and diasporic experiences and traditions.

Ellie Armon Azoulay is a cultural historian, curator and DJ. Her work is focused on archives of music and photography. She explores issues of diasporic communities, music collecting, and cultures of protest and resistance. 

She is a research fellow at Durham University where she works on a her new research project Sounds of Liberation: The Feminist Vernacular in Jamaican Folklore 1950-1980. She is also completing first book Reclaiming the Lore: African American Music Collectors, Refusal and Anti-Preservationist Possibilities. 


She is a resident at Slack’s Radio with her monthly show Diasporic Connections and a program committee member at Newbridge Project in Newcastle, curating her exhibition Resounding Diasporic Sonic Worlds. 

Selection of records played in the show organised on the floor like a collage

Diasporic Connections – Slack’s Radio

Started in May 2024, this monthly program brings together sounds and music on vinyls from different parts of the world across different periods and musical genres (folk, blues, country, jazz, soul and other) to explore how they express shared feelings, ideas, and experiences about land, community, family, unity, labour, resistance, protest, exploitation, exile, love, heartbreak and longing. Diasporic Connections features guests from time to time to share their collections and curations of sound.

  • Diasporic Connections – Slack’s Radio