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Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine

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Maria Sonevytsky
2019
Published by: Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music Culture
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Recipient of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society

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.

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright, Epigraph

pp. i-vi

Contents

pp. vii-viii

Preface

pp. ix-xiv

Acknowledgments

pp. xv-xx

Note on Names and Transliteration

pp. xxi-xxiv

INTRODUCTION On Wildness

pp. 1-26

ONE Wild Dances: Ethnic Intimacy, Auto-Exoticism, and Infrastructural Activism

pp. 27-57

TWO Freak Cabaret: Politics and Aesthetics in the Time of Revolution

pp. 58-84

THREE Ungovernable Timbres: The Failures of the Rural Voice on Reality TV

pp. 85-113

FOUR Eastern Music: The Liminal Sovereign Imaginaries of Crimea

pp. 114-138

FIVE Ethno-Chaos: Provincializing Russia Through Ukrainian World Music

pp. 139-167

CONCLUSION Dreamland: Becoming Acoustic Citizens

pp. 168-182

Notes

pp. 183-210

Bibliography

pp. 211-232

Index

pp. 233-255

About the Author

pp. 256
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