Associate Professor of Anthropology and Music at Bard College. Author of the books Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine, published n 2019, and Tantsi, published in 2023. Currently, she works on her third book, centered on the Soviet-era Kyiv Palace of Pioneers, is in process and tentatively titled Singing for Lenin in Soviet Ukraine: Children, Music, and the Communist Future.
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Sounds like Decolonization: Vopli Vidopliassova and Alternative Ukrainian Music in the 1980s
Inspired by the talk with Maria Sonevytsky on the release of her new book Tantsi, this article offers reflections on the ways and opportunities to apply decolonization to the field of Soviet cultural history and anthropology through the case of…