Chernobyl/Chornobyl Imagery in Popular Music: Voices From Ukraine
Chernobyl/Chornobyl Imagery in Popular Music: Voices From Ukraine
Author(s): Tetiana OstapchukSubject(s): Music, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Chornobyl; Anthropocene; popular culture; contact zone; world-making;
Summary/Abstract: The Chornobyl disaster took on planetary significance, but Ukrainian voices were marginalized for many years by more powerful, dominant discourses. This paper explores how Chornobyl trauma has been re-presented by Ukrainian popular music artivists between 2000 and 2020. The case study focuses on narrating, visualizing, and vocalizing strategies by Andriy Kuzmenko, Nata Zhyzhchenko, and Valeriy Korshunov. The author aims to show how these projects were inspired by the Anthropocene ideas. The paper demonstrates how the Ukrainian artists crossed territorial and cultural borders while concurrently transforming the image of the Chornobyl Zone from being a bordered alienated land into a boderscape of interaction between diverse agents.
Journal: Border Crossing
- Issue Year: 14/2024
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 29-43
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
