"Playing for Peace: Hip-Hop Connections Between Uganda and Ukraine" Sept. 26 at 7:00 pm

Sept. 22, 2009 - PRLog -- The Ukrainian National Museum is proud to present:

"Playing for Peace: Hip-Hop Connections Between Uganda and Ukraine" on Sat. Sept. 26, 2009 at 7:00 pm.

An evening with Dr. Adriana Helbig, who will enlighten us with her studies of the relationship between music from Africa and Ukraine.

ADRIANA HELBIG is Assistant Professor of Music and Affiliated Faculty
with the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the
University of Pittsburgh. She holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from
Columbia University (2005) where she has also taught in the Ukrainian
Studies Program. Her articles on Romani (Gypsy) music, post-socialist
cultural policy, and global hip-hop have appeared in edited
collections and journals such as Yearbook for Traditional Music,
Current Musicology, and Anthropology of East Europe Review.

7pm, Admission $5

The Ukrainian National Museum is located at 2249 W. Superior St, Chicago, IL 60612. Free Parking is available adjacent to the museum. For additional information please, please call the Ukrainian National Museum at 312.421.8020

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The Ukrainian National Museum boasts a library, permanent collections and extensive archives and an exhibit hall. The Museum collects, preserves, exhibits and serves as a resource for research, the artifacts and records of the Ukrainian Immigration.