Question:<\/p>\n
How are Ukrainian refugees and Ukrainians abroad finding meaning\/processing grief using music today?<\/p>\n
\tDifferences between those who stayed and left?
\n \tRebranding and sudden attention to Ukrainian artists?<\/p>\n
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There has been a revival of traditional folk Ukrainian music since the start of the war. This has been a source of healing and processing of grief in a strange turn of events; there is a return of a linguistic and musical tradition that has largely been forgotten before the war.<\/p>\n
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Or has it? I have conflicting sources. Some people believe that this war truly reignited a tradition that has brought unprecedented attention and linked Ukrainian refugees and those who have stayed. Another that I talked to believes that the folk tradition has been coming back into the light for decades now, and that this revival has been dramatized.<\/p>\n
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I am still trying to find my angle and would like to root it more to the idea of migration and the refugee experience. This is an approach I hope to take by talking to more Ukrainian refugee organizations.<\/p>\n
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JRN 449 Final Project Source List<\/p>\n
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* = musician\/performer<\/p>\n
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People I have interviewed:<\/p>\n
\tVitaliy Bolgar* – Ukrainian director Music in World Cultures (MIWC), Singer & Guitarist
\n \tStephen Benham \u2013 Professor of Music Education at Duquesne University, President of Music in World Cultures (MIWC)
\n \tSonya Zhukova* \u2013 Singer-Songwriter, Musika Musika Communications (REACH OUT)
\n \tSimon Morrison – Professor of Music at Princeton University, Focus: the musical, cultural, and political histories of the Soviet Union, Russia, the United States
\n \tSolomiya Ivakhiv* – Violinist
\n \tMaria Sonevytsky – Associate Professor of Anthropology & Music at Bard College<\/p>\n
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To reach out to:<\/p>\n
\tJana Strukova, PhD\u2019 07 Princeton Theological Seminary (leads program at church that welcomes Ukranian refugees<\/a>) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: How are Ukrainian refugees and Ukrainians abroad finding meaning\/processing grief using music today? Differences between those who stayed and left? Rebranding and sudden attention to Ukrainian artists? There has been a revival of traditional folk Ukrainian music since the start of the war. This has been a source of healing and processing of<\/p>\n
\n \t Interfaith Refugee Resettlement Committee<\/a>
\n \tPrinceton For Ukraine (I connected with the Facebook Page)
\n \tUkrainian Institute of America
\n \tNadia Shpachenko, piano (concert at Ukrainian Institute of America on Nov 17 that I was invited to, they said I could speak to her)<\/p>\n