Our guest for this podcast is Adriana Helbig, Associate professor of  Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music. Professor Helbig is an expert on the music of Eastern Europe and was the founder of Pitt’s Carpathian Music Ensemble. Her book Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race and African Migration is the first ethnographically based analysis of hip-hop in Ukraine and stems from long-term research among Ukrainian and African musicians in Ukraine and Uganda.

Coming up in the 2019–20 academic year, the Department of Music will launch prison-related programming that augments campus-wide initiatives relating to the Pitt Prison Education Project (PPEP).  Four new courses will be taught by ethnomusicology Professor Adriana Helbig.

Doctoral candidates Emilie Rook (Ethnomusicology) and Ben Barson (Jazz Studies) have been awarded Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellowships. These fellowships are awarded by the Dietrich School and provide a year of funding to pursue dissertation research.

Congratulations to Steven Moon on being named a 2019 Fulbright Award recipient!  Moon will use his Fulbright year to complete research on his dissertation “Sound, Science, Islam: Music as Healing in Istanbul.” In describing his research, Moon writes,