Professor #Anthropology & #Music @BardCollege working on Ukraine, music, feminism, voice, 🪗. Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi book and album out now!
May 16, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Iryna Tsilyk, one of the Ukrainians accused here of “cruelty” and “blackmailing” @PENamerica tells a different story in an fb post responding to this piece in @TheAtlantic… of how the rug was pulled-out from under the Ukrainian writers, about how only after arriving in NYC…
…they saw that a last minute panel featuring “victims of tyranny” (1 Chinese writer & 3 Russians (!) moderated by Gessen) had been added to the program, after the terms of their participation had specified that they wouldn’t participate alongside Russian writers.
Oct 15, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Losing track of the number of times a Russian speaker has overheard me speaking Ukrainian in recent months and exclaimed, "Oh, it really IS a different language!" 🤦 Russocentrism: the smug legacy of imperialism and Soviet rule. Russian is not a neutral lingua franca. A rant:
Educate yourself. Start with Ivan Dziuba's 1965 "Internationalism or Russification?" (difficult to find in English) and then go on to Yuri Shevchuk's 2015 "Linguistic Schizophrenia" where he discussed the political techniques of Russification. Some links below 👇
Feb 23, 2022 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
Watching in horror, unable to focus, thinking about the many ways in which Ukraine has a legitimate history. So here: Ukraine has a (musical) history, a rich & complex one. An admittedly idiosyncratic starter kit in 16 songs. First, an 1850 song about truth and justice...🧵
Julian Kytasty sings “Нема у Світі Правда” (“There’s no Truth in the World”) at the Chervona Ruta Festival, 1989. Kytasty is a renowned carrier of the epic bard tradition of Ukraine, repressed in USSR. Bards were unafraid to speak truth to power: tinyurl.com/4wtjbz2r
