Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration (Ethnomusicology Multimedia) - Softcover

Helbig, Adriana N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025301204X ISBN 13: 9780253012043

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2014

Synopsis

In Hip Hop Ukraine, we enter a world of urban music and dance competitions, hip hop parties, and recording studio culture to explore unique sites of interracial encounters among African students, African immigrants, and local populations in eastern Ukraine. Adriana N. Helbig 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. She maps the complex trajectories of musical influence―African, Soviet, American―to show how hip hop has become a site of social protest in post-socialist society and a vehicle for social change.

About this title

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.

Review:

A well-conceived study of the role and significance of hip hop in Ukraine. It joins the ranks of other very timely chronicles on the impact of hip hop in various societies around the world. (Allison Blakely Boston University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 025301204X
• ISBN 13: 9780253012043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240