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IAS Book Launch: A War of Songs - Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations
09 July 2019, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
We are delighted to welcome Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT the Arctic University of Norway) and David-Emil Wickström (Popakademie Baden-Württemberg) for the launch of their co-authored book 'A War of Songs - Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations'. Katie McElvanney (British Library, Ukrainian and Belarusian Collections) and Michał Murawski (SSEES, UCL) will provide a response. Chaired by Reuben Fowkes (PACT, IAS, UCL)
This event is free.
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Institute of Advanced Studies
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IAS ForumGround floor, South Wing, UCLLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
A War of Songs - Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations
This multi-authored monograph consists of the sections: “Pop Rock, Ethno-Chaos, Battle Drums, and a Requiem: The Sounds of the Ukrainian Revolution,” “The Euromaidan’s Aftermath and the Genre of Answer Song: A Musical Dialogue Between the Antagonists?”, “Exposing the Fault Lines beneath the Kremlin’s Restorative Geopolitics: Russian and Ukrainian Parodies of the Russian National Anthem,” and “‘Lasha Tumbai’, or ‘Russia, Goodbye’? The Eurovision Song Contest as a Post-Soviet Geopolitical Battleground.”
The book is published by Ibidem Verlag and distributed by Columbia University Press
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