New issue of “Baltic Worlds” on music and Russia’s war against Ukraine
The new special issue highlights the idea that music can justify war and ignite conflicts and explores the relationship between music, politics, and societal dynamics in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Anna Schwenck, Aleksej Tikhonov & David Emil Wickström: Sounds in times of war: Popular music, (contentious) politics and social change since Russia’s war on Ukraine
Peer-reviewed articles
David-Emil Wickström: Slushai Bat’ku! Popular music, politics and the legacy of Belarusian Vokal’noInstrumental’nyi Ansambls (VIAs)
Yauheni Kryzhanouski: The ethos of resistance in Belarusian rock: The 2020 protests and Russia’s war on Ukraine
Anna Schwenck & Anastasia Bondarenko: Performing homeland and the de-/legitimation of war: A multimodal analysis of music videos
Kirill Polkov: Remixing nationalism: Gender and sexuality in Russian popular music and its reception on TikTok and Instagram
Aleksej Tikhonov: Processing of the Russian war against Ukraine in the lyrics of Ukrainian rappers in Ukraine, Germany, and Russia
Emma C. Schrott: Raving, rebuilding, and resisting: Rave tolokas as communal electronic music practices in wartime Ukraine
Inna Shvorak: Folk music (post)revival in (re)invented Ukrainian military funeral: A research note on wartime ritual practice
Essay
Ieva Gudaitytė: Listening to alternative histories through independent sound media in Ukraine