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HIP HOP UKRAINE Ethnomusicology Multimedia Ethnomusicology Multimedia (EM) is a collaborative publishing program, developed with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to iden- tify and publish first books in ethnomusicology, accompanied by supple- mental audiovisual materials online at www.ethnomultimedia.org. A collaboration of the presses at Indiana and Temple universities, EM is an innovative, entrepreneurial, and cooperative effort to expand publish- ing opportunities for emerging scholars in ethnomusicology and to increase audience reach by using common resources available to the presses through support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each press acquires and develops EM books according to its own profile and editorial criteria. EM’s most innovative features are its dual web-based components, the first of which is a password-protected Annotation Management System (AMS) where authors can upload peer-reviewed audio, video, and static image content for editing and annotation and key the selections to cor- responding references in their texts. Second is a public site for viewing the web content, www.ethnomultimedia.org, with links to publishers’ websites for information about the accompanying books. The AMS and website were designed and built by the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities at Indiana University. The Indiana University Digital Library Program (DLP) hosts the website and the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music (ATM) provides archiving and preservation services for the EM online content. HIP HOP UKRAINE MUSIC, RACE, AND AFRICAN MIGRATION Adriana N. Helbig Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of can National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Indiana University Press Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 Manufactured in the United States of America 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data iupress.indiana.edu Helbig, Adriana, author. Telephone 800-842-6796 Hip hop Ukraine : music, race, and African Fax 812-855-7931 migration / Adriana N. Helbig. pages cm — (Ethnomusicology multi- © 2014 by Adriana N. Helbig media) All rights reserved ISBN 978-0-253-01204-3 (paperback : alkaline paper) — ISBN 978-0-253-01200-5 No part of this book may be reproduced (cloth : alkaline paper) — ISBN 978-0-253- or utilized in any form or by any means, 01208-1 (ebook) 1. Rap (Music)—Ukraine electronic or mechanical, including photo- —History and criticism. 2. Hip-hop— copying and recording, or by any informa- Ukraine. 3. Blacks—Race identity— tion storage and retrieval system, without Ukraine. I. Title. II. Series: Ethno- permission in writing from the publisher. The musicology multimedia. Association of American University Presses’ ML3499.U37H45 2014 Resolution on Permissions constitutes the 306.4’8424909477—dc23 only exception to this prohibition. 2013037688 ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the Ameri- 1 2 3 4 5 19 18 17 16 15 14 Dedicated to my mother, Marijka Stadnycka Helbig, and in loving memory of my father, Omelan Helbig This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 Music and Black Identity in the Soviet Union 33 2 Music and Black Experiences in Post-Soviet Ukraine 64 3 Commercial and Underground Hip Hop in Ukraine 98 4 Afro-Ukrainian Hip Hop Fusion 135 5 Hip Hop in Uganda 165 Epilogue 190 Glossary 195 Notes 199 Bibliography 207 Index 219 This page intentionally left blank ETHNOMUSICOLOGY MULTIMEDIA SERIES PREFACE GUIDE TO ONLINE MEDIA EXAMPLES Each of the audio, video, or still image media examples listed below is associ- ated with specific passages in this book, and each example has been assigned a unique Persistent Uniform Resource Locator, or PURL. The PURL identifies a specific audio, video, or still image media example on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website, www.ethnomultimedia.org. Within the text of the book, a “PURL number” in parentheses functions like a citation and immediately follows the text to which it refers, e.g. (PURL 3.1). The numbers following the word “PURL” relate to the chapter in which the media example is found, and the number of PURLs contained in that chapter. For example, PURL 3.1 refers to the first media example found in chapter 3; PURL 3.2 refers to the second media example found in chapter 3, and so on. To access all media associated with this book, readers must first create a free account by going to the Ethnomusicology Multimedia Project website www.ethnomultimedia.org and clicking the “Sign In” link. Readers will be required to read and electronically sign an End Users License Agreement (EULA) the first time they access a media example on the website. After log- ging in to the site there are two ways to access and play back audio, video, or still image media examples. In the “Search” field enter the name of the author to be taken to a webpage with information about the book and the author as well as a playlist of all media examples associated with the book. To access a specific media example, in the “Search” field enter the six-digit PURL identi- fier of the example (the six digits located at the end of the full PURL address below). The reader will be taken to the web page containing that media ex- ample as well as a playlist of all the other media examples related to the book. x Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface Readers of the electronic edition of this book will simply click on the PURL address for each media example; once they have logged in to www.ethnomulti media.org, this live link will take them directly to the media example on the Ethnomusicology Multimedia website. LIST OF PURLS INTRODUCTION PURL 0.1 | A Ukrainian-language anti-trafficking public service video (2009) sponsored by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe featuring ethno-pop singer Ruslana Lyzhychko. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910254 CHAPTER 1 PURL 1.1 | Paul Robeson sings in Russian and English at a concert in Green Park, Moscow, 1949. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910255 PURL 1.2 | Black and White (1933), produced by L. Ivanov-Vano and L. Amalrik in the Soviet Union. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910256 PURL 1.3 | Aquarium, “Captain Africa” from the album Radio Africa (1983). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910274 CHAPTER 2 PURL 2.1 | Zapreshchennye Barabanshchiki (Banned Drummers), “Ubili Negra” (They killed a Negro) (1999). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910257 PURL 2.2 | An anti-migration/anti-African political ad by the People’s Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko (Ukraine). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910258 PURL 2.3 | Ruslana featuring T-Pain, “Moon of Dreams” on Ruslana’s album Amazonka (2008). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910259 PURL 2.4 | Gaitana Essami and Petya Cherniy, “Liuby menia” (Love me) (2009). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910260 Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface xi CHAPTER 3 PURL 3.1 | Tanok na Maidani Kongo (Dance on Congo Square), “Zroby meni hip-hop” (Make me a hip-hop) (1997). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910261 PURL 3.2 | Vova zi L’vova (Vova from Lviv), “Mij rayon—Sykhiv” (My neighborhood—Sykhiv) (2006). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910262 PURL 3.3 | The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus perform “Tiutiunnyk” at the University of Pittsburgh, October 1, 2011. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910263 PURL 3.4 | AfroRasta, “Peace and Love”(2006). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910264 PURL 3.5 | Black Beatles, “Club Fever” (2006). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910275 CHAPTER 4 PURL 4.1 | A 2012 McDonald’s commercial featuring a monkey (Ukraine). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910265 PURL 4.2 | The Soviet cartoonChuzhoy Golos (A Foreign Voice) (1949). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910266 PURL 4.3 | Chornobryvtsi, “Ty zh mene pidmanula” (You deceived me) (2006). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910267 PURL 4.4 | Alfa-Alfa, “Rozpriahajte khloptsi koni” (Unharness your horses, men) (2006). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910268 PURL 4.5 | Alfa-Alfa, “Aborigeni” (Aborigines) (2011). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910269 PURL 4.6 | The Russian-language song “Chunga-Changa” from the Soviet cartoon Katorok (Little Sailboat) (1970). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910270 PURL 4.7 | The Russian-language Soviet cartoonKanikuly Bonifacia (Bonefaci’s Vacation) (1965). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910271 xii Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface PURL 4.8 | Gaitana Essami, “Africa” from her children’s CD Kookaburra (2008). http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910272 CHAPTER 5 PURL 5.1 | Lucky Bosmic Otim, “Peace Return Northern Uganda.” http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Helbig/910273 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The research presented here has been funded by grants from the 2007 Ad- vanced Research Fellowship from the American Councils for International Education, the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) 2007– 2008 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program, the 2008 Na- tional Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Fellowship Program, and the 2008–2009 IREX Short-Term Travel Grant. Sections of this book were researched as a Title VIII Supported Research Scholar during the sum- mer of 2009 at the Kennan Institute (covering Russia and surrounding states) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and as an Internal Research Fellow at the Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh in the fall of 2009.