Cafe International's series on Ukrainian Music, Episode 8: Professor Maria Sonevytsky

An interview with professor of anthropology and music, Maria Sonevytsky from Bard College. She is the author of the award winning book, Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine. We will hear how Ukraine, a country whose culture and very existence have been under attack for centuries, has represented its diversity and musical traditions, often quite politically at the Eurovision Song Contest. Later in the program, we will learn about music from the Indigenous Crimean Tatar minority – one that was ethnically cleansed from that peninsula in 1944 under the rule of Josef Stalin.