Episode 3, presented by Nicholas Mathew. Professor Maria Sonevytsky from UC Berkeley's music department discusses her new book Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine, which just received the prestigious 2020 Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society. How do Ukraine's two victories in the Eurovision Song Contest relate to the simultaneous revolutionary moments in the country's history? What is the contested politics of "traditional" vocal styles within the Urkainian iteration of the global television franchise The Voice? And what does modern Ukrainian history have to teach us about culture, statehood, and sovereignty in a fraught political geography of migration and shifting borders?

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