Season 3, Episode 4

What does it mean to be a scholar when the culture you study is under attack? Maria Sonevytsky and Oksana Nesterenko work on Ukrainian music, and their lives have changed profoundly in the last year. A conversation about the Ukrainian avant-garde and pop worlds, how wartime changes research agendas, and much more.

Maria Sonevytsky is Associate Professor of Anthropology & Music at Bard College; Oksana Nesterenko teaches at Union College.

If you’re interested in learning more about Professor Sonevytsky (@marusiasays)’s work, check out:

• The *new* book Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi
• The 2019 book Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine
• An article about a Ukrainian wartime slogan in Los Angeles Review of Books

If you’re interested in learning more about Professor Nesterenko’s (@erlenadlu) work, check check out:

• A 2022 Musicology Now article on Kyiv’s new music scene in wartime
• An introduction to contemporary Ukrainian music
• The Extended Techniques podcast

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A written transcript of this episode is available here; many thanks to Andrew Dell’Antonio for volunteering to prepare transcripts for the show!