BOOKS
2023 Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi. 33 1/3 Europe Series. New York, NY: Bloomsbury.
2019 Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine. Music/Culture Series. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
2025 “The Engineers of Children’s Fingers: Children’s Music, Soviet Internationalism, and the Problem of Ukraine’s National Instrument.” Slavic Review, 84.2 (Summer 2025), pp. 278-301. Doi: 10.1017/slr.2025.10208
2022 “What is Ukraine? Notes on Epistemic Imperialism,” Topos, 2, pp. 21-30.
2022 “Musical Evolution and the Other: From State-Sponsored Musical Evolutionism in the USSR to Post-Soviet Crimean Tatar Indigenous Music,” Ethnomusicology, 66.1, pp. 51-80.
2019 “Listening for Dissensus.” Colloquy on Sound and Protest at the Women’s March on Washington, Music & Politics. 13.1 (Winter 2019), pp. 1-7.
2019 “Radio Meydan: ‘Eastern’ Music and the Liminal Sovereign Imaginaries of Crimea.” Public Culture, 31.1, pp. 93-116.
2016 “The Freak Cabaret on the Revolution Stage: On the Ambivalent Politics of Femininity, Rurality, and Nationalism in Ukrainian Popular Music.” Journal of Popular Music Studies, 28.3, pp. 291-314.
2008 “The Accordion and Ethnic Whiteness: Toward a New Critical Organology.” The World of Music 50.3, pp. 101-118.
PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
2025 “Indigenous Futurity in Exile: Jamala’s QIRIM.” TERRA INVICTA: Ukrainian Wartime Imaginings for a Habitable Earth, ed. by Adrian Ivakhiv. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2025 “Sharovarshchyna: Sonic Contestations of Ukrainian Wildness.” Anti-Atlas: Towards a Critical Area Studies, ed. by Wendy Bracewell, Tim Beasley-Murray, and Michał Murawski. UCL Press, pp. 161-166.
2018 “Overhearing Indigenous Silence: Crimean Tatars During the Crimean War.” Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense, ed. Gavin Williams. London and New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 88-104.
2016 “Late Soviet Discourses of ‘Nature’ and the Natural: Musical Avtentyka, Native Faith and ‘Cultural Ecology’ after Chornobyl.” Current Directions in Ecomusicology (eds. Aaron S. Allen and Kevin Dawe). London and New York: Routledge, pp. 135-146. Co-authored with Adrian Ivakhiv.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
2017 “Crimean Tatar Popular Music.” The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Europe, Vol. 11 (eds. Paolo Prato and David Horn). London and New York: Continuum Books.
ADDITIONAL SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS
2025 “Everyday Amulets.” Article for the London Ukrainian Review vol. 5, Oct 2. Republished in Eurozine Oct 6, 2025.
2023 “Good Evening, We Are From Ukraine: The Subversive Radicalism of a Viral Wartime Slogan.” Los Angeles Review of Books. January 17.
2022 “…my burning heart aches from yearning…”: A Ukrainian Perspective on Eugene Onegin. San Francisco Opera, program notes, Republished in Jan 2023 Shevchenko Scientific Society Bulletin.
2019 “Vocal Anguish, Disinformation, and the Politics of Eurovision 2016.” Guest blog post for Sounding Out! May 13.
2016 “Carpathian Mountains, Hutsul Region, Ukraine.” The Ethnomusicologists’ Cookbook, Vol. 2 (ed. Sean Williams). London and New York: Routledge, pp. 174-178.
2015 “Chornobyl Songs Project: Living Culture from a Lost World.” Liner notes. Smithsonian Folkways, SFW CD 50420.
2010 “Three Perspectives on Ethnography from Ukraine: The Mysterious Tale of a Lost Hutsul Manuscript, Its Recovery, and the Dialogues that Ensued.” The Harriman Review (March), pp.15-20.
2008 “No Other Home: The Crimean Tatar Repatriates.” Triple Canopy and Pressje (in Polish, 2009). <https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/no_other_home>.
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