Description: "Tells the story of how an underground cassette tape recorded in mere hours by the Ukrainian punk rock group known as "Ve-Ve" introduced a new aesthetics of irony and challenged the boundaries of official and unofficial culture in the late Soviet period of the 1980s"--
Brief description: Maria Sonevytsky is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Music at Bard College, USA. She is the author of Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine (2019), winner of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society, and is currently writing a book about Soviet Ukrainian children's music.