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Resounding Poverty - Romani Music and Development Aid

English · Hardback

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In ReSounding Poverty, author Adriana N. Helbig refocuses studies of Roma communities and explores the failures of Western-funded economic aid programs by studying musicians' representation of their operations.

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  • Preface

  • Acknowledgements

  • Introduction

  • 1. Transitions

  • 2. Interventions

  • 3. Accountability

  • 4. Networks

  • 5. Mobilities

  • 6. Tuning In

  • 7. Sound Health

  • 8. Release

  • Epilogue



About the author

Dr. Adriana N. Helbig is Associate Professor of Music and former Assistant Dean of Undergraduates at the University of Pittsburgh where she teaches courses on world music, global hip hop, Romani music, music and disability studies, prison sounds, and bluegrass. She has received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Fulbright Foundation, the International Research and Exchanges (IREX), the Institute of International Education (IIE), the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the American Association for Ukrainian Studies, the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, and the Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University.

Her work appears in numerous international academic journals and edited volumes. She is the author of Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration (2014) and the co-editor with Milosz Miszczynski of Hip Hop at Europe's Edge: Music, Agency, and Social Change (2017). She is also the co-author with Oksana Buranbaeva and Vanja Mladineo of Culture and Customs of Ukraine (2009).

Summary

In ReSounding Poverty, author Adriana N. Helbig refocuses studies of Roma communities and explores the failures of Western-funded economic aid programs by studying musicians' representation of their operations.

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Although the current volume could easily be two books, it is powerful and provocative as one...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers.

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