Hip Hop Ukraine

Adriana N. Helbig

Description

Hip hop and social change in post-socialist society

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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.

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

Sujets

• Hip Hop
• MUSIC
• África
• Popular music
• Hip hop music
• Multiple signal classification
• Ethnomusicology
• Africa

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 07 mai 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9780253012081
• Langue: English

Extrait

HIP HOP UKRAINE
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HIP HOP UKRAINE
MUSIC, RACE, AND AFRICAN MIGRATION
Adriana N. Helbig
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Helbig, Adriana, author.
Hip hop Ukraine : music, race, and African migration / Adriana N. Helbig.
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ISBN 978-0-253-01204-3 (paperback : alkaline paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-01200-5 (cloth : alkaline paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-01208-1 (ebook) 1. Rap (Music)-Ukraine-History and criticism. 2. Hip-hop-Ukraine. 3. Blacks-Race identity-Ukraine. I. Title. II. Series: Ethnomusicology multimedia.
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DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER, Marijka Stadnycka Helbig,
AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY FATHER, Omelan Helbig
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
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY MULTIMEDIA SERIES PREFACE
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LIST OF PURLS
INTRODUCTION
PURL 0.1 | A Ukrainian-language anti-trafficking public service video (2009) sponsored by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe featuring ethno-pop singer Ruslana Lyzhychko.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910254
CHAPTER 1
PURL 1.1 | Paul Robeson sings in Russian and English at a concert in Green Park, Moscow, 1949.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910255
PURL 1.2 | Black and White (1933), produced by L. Ivanov-Vano and L. Amalrik in the Soviet Union.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910256
PURL 1.3 | Aquarium, Captain Africa from the album Radio Africa (1983).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910274
CHAPTER 2
PURL 2.1 | Zapreshchennye Barabanshchiki (Banned Drummers), Ubili Negra (They killed a Negro) (1999).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910257
PURL 2.2 | An anti-migration/anti-African political ad by the People s Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko (Ukraine).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910258
PURL 2.3 | Ruslana featuring T-Pain, Moon of Dreams on Ruslana s album Amazonka (2008).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910259
PURL 2.4 | Gaitana Essami and Petya Cherniy, Liuby menia (Love me) (2009).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910260
CHAPTER 3
PURL 3.1 | Tanok na Maidani Kongo (Dance on Congo Square), Zroby meni hip-hop (Make me a hip-hop) (1997).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910261
PURL 3.2 | Vova zi L vova (Vova from Lviv), Mij rayon-Sykhiv (My neighborhood-Sykhiv) (2006).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910262
PURL 3.3 | The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus perform Tiutiunnyk at the University of Pittsburgh, October 1, 2011.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910263
PURL 3.4 | AfroRasta, Peace and Love (2006).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910264
PURL 3.5 | Black Beatles, Club Fever (2006).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910275
CHAPTER 4
PURL 4.1 | A 2012 McDonald s commercial featuring a monkey (Ukraine).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910265
PURL 4.2 | The Soviet cartoon Chuzhoy Golos (A Foreign Voice) (1949).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910266
PURL 4.3 | Chornobryvtsi, Ty zh mene pidmanula (You deceived me) (2006).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910267
PURL 4.4 | Alfa-Alfa, Rozpriahajte khloptsi koni (Unharness your horses, men) (2006).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910268
PURL 4.5 | Alfa-Alfa, Aborigeni (Aborigines) (2011).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910269
PURL 4.6 | The Russian-language song Chunga-Changa from the Soviet cartoon Katorok (Little Sailboat) (1970).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910270
PURL 4.7 | The Russian-language Soviet cartoon Kanikuly Bonifacia (Bonefaci s Vacation) (1965).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910271
PURL 4.8 | Gaitana Essami, Africa from her children s CD Kookaburra (2008).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910272
CHAPTER 5
PURL 5.1 | Lucky Bosmic Otim, Peace Return Northern Uganda.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910273
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The research presented here has been funded by grants from the 2007 Advanced Research Fellowship from the American Councils for International Education, the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) 2007-2008 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program, the 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Fellowship Program, and the 2008-2009 IREX Short-Term Travel Grant. Sections of this book were researched as a Title VIII Supported Research Scholar during the summer of 2009 at the Kennan Institute (covering Russia and surrounding states) at the