Wild Music
Subtitle: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780819579164
Subjects: Music, history and criticism
Description: "What are the uses of musical exoticism? In Wild Music, Maria Sonevytsky tracks vernacular Ukrainian discourses of "wildness" as they manifested in popular music during a volatile decade of Ukrainian political history bracketed by two revolutions. From the Eurovision Song Contest to reality TV, from Indigenous radio to the revolution stage, Sonevytsky assesses how these practices exhibit and re-imagine Ukrainian tradition and culture. As the rise of global populism forces us to confront the category of state sovereignty anew, Sonevytsky proposes innovative paradigms for thinking through the creative practices that constitute sovereignty, citizenship, and nationalism."--