Hip Hop Ukraine - Music, Race, and African Migration

Adriana N. Helbig is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh and an affiliated faculty member in Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, Global Studies, and at the Center for Russian and East European Studies. She is author (with Oksana Buranbaeva and Vanja Mladineo) of The Culture and Customs of Ukraine.

List of contents

Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Music and Black Identity in the Soviet Union
2. Music and Black Experiences in Post-Soviet Ukraine
3. Commercial and Underground Hip Hop in Ukraine
4. Afro-Ukrainian Hip Hop Fusion
5. Hip Hop in Uganda
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Adriana N. Helbig is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh and an affiliated faculty member in Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, Global Studies, and at the Center for Russian and East European Studies. She is author (with Oksana Buranbaeva and Vanja Mladineo) of The Culture and Customs of Ukraine.

Summary

Combines ethnographic research with music, media, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of hip hop create social and political spaces where an interracial youth culture can speak to issues of human rights and racial equality.

Product details

• Authors: Adriana Helbig, Adriana N. Helbig, Helbig Adriana N, Adriana N. Miszczynski
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2014
• EAN: 9780253012005
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01200-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Ethnomusicology Multimedia; Ethnomusicology Multimedia; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Unterhaltungsmusik, Popmusik, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Rap and Hip Hop, Traditionelle Musik und Volksmusik, Music / Songbooks, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology