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Hip Hop Ukraine Music, Race, and African Migration Adriana N. Helbig
"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, Professor of History and African American Studies, Boston University, Author of "Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought" (Howard University, 1986)
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.
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Helbig, Adriana with Oksana Buranbaeva and Vanja Mladineo. 2009. Culture and Customs of Ukraine. Westwood, CT: Greenwood Press.
Explore Ukraine's fascinating contemporary life and culture in this unique and all-encompassing reference work, ideal for high school and undergraduate students.
Ukraine's tumultuous history has left it standing on unstable ground, wrought with the devastation of the 20th century's wars, famines, and other struggles. Today, life in Ukraine is moving forward, stepping out of the shadows of Communism and into a modern, urban, and multicultural light, finally gaining for itself a sense of national identity. Now a cultural hotspot that serves as a crossroads between Europe and Asia, Ukraine's traditions of yesterday are evolving into today's daily life and customs. High school and undergraduate students will have the opportunity to delve into Ukraine's modern society by looking at its religious practices, language conflicts, gender issues, education policies, and media censorship struggles, as well as its cuisine, holidays, literature, music, and performing arts. A thorough and unique investigation of this young country, Culture and Customs of Ukraine is an absolute must-have for high school, public, and undergraduate library bookshelves.
Coverage includes historical background, religions, language, gender, education, customs, holidays, and cuisine, media, literature, music, and Ukranian theatre and cinema in the 20th century.
A chronology, photos, and bibliography including print and nonprint sources supplement this work.
