PUBLICATIONS

“Belarus” In Encyclopedia of Popular Music. ed. John Shepherd (London: Oxford, 2005).

“Miensk” In Encyclopedia of Popular Music. ed. John Shepherd (London: Oxford, 2005).

“Belarusan Popular Music and the Creation of a Sound Community,” In Zapisy (New York: Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences, forthcoming).

“Ordinary Words: The Aesthetics of Language in Belarusan-Language Rock Music “ In Global Pop Local Talk: Music and the Politics and Aesthetics of Language Choice, ed. Harris Berger and Michael Carroll (Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2003).

“Dilemmas at the Cutting Edge: The Place of Identity in Belarusan Studies,” In Current Issues in Belarusan Scholarship (London: Skaryna Library), 2003.

Of Mermaids and Rock Singers: Placing the Self and Constructing the Nation Through Belarusan Contemporary Music, vol 2 in the series Current Research in Ethnomusicology, ed. Jennifer Post (New York: Routledge), 2002.

“Belarus: Staged Folklore and Popular Music Trends” In Europe, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. ed. Tim Rice and Chris Goertzen (Oakland: Garland Publishing Inc., 2000).

Translator and editor for “Belarusian Statehood and Lukashenka’s Politics,” by Alexandra Goujon. Belarusian Review (Winter 1998): 7-10.

“Rock Music in Belarus” In Rocking the State, ed. Sabrina Ramet (Oxford: Westview Press, 1994), 219-242.

“From Assertion to Aesthetics: Belarus as Subject in Poetic and Musical Text” in Zapisy 20 (New York: Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1992).

Introduction to Praz Rok Pryzmu (Through the Prism of Rock), by Vitaut Martinienka and Anatol Mialhuj (Miensk: The Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1990).

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

“Back in the B.S.S.R.” or “And the Beat Goes On”: Adaptations in Sound and Vision in
the Belarusan Rock Movement 1989-2005,”
HARVARD SYMPOSIUM ON THE ARTS, NATIONAL IDENTITY AND POLITICS IN BELARUS
Harvard University, October 13-16, 2005

“Rhetoric and the Forecasting of a National Climate: The Diagnosis of Belarusan Identity in
Contemporary Discourse,”
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SLAVISTS, LEARNED SOCIETIES CONFERENCE,
London, Canada, May 28-31, 2005.

“Cultural Exchanges-Appropriations: The Presence of the Belarusian Klezmer Tradition,”
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES,
Boston, Massachussets, December, 2004

“The Cover Art of Belarusan Rock Albums: The Emerging Iconography of a Contemporary Belarusan Idiom,”
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SLAVISTS, LEARNED SOCIETIES CONFERENCE,
Winnipeg, Canada, June 2-25, 2004.

“Belarusan Rock and the Construction of a Sound Community”
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES
Toronto, Canada in November 18-21, 2003.

“Constructing Memory, Inviting Ownership, and the Belarusan Beat: Concepts and Compilations
in Post-X Popular Music”
SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Miami, October 2-5, 2003.

“Transparently Separate: Bursting the Bubble of the Melting Pot in Lawrence Welk’s Musical Family”
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF POPULAR MUSIC, Los Angeles, UCLA, September 18-21, 2003.

“Post-X Popular Music: Cohesion and the Construction of Memory Through Belarusan Rock,”
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SLAVISTS, LEARNED SOCIETIES CONFERENCE,
Toronto, Canada, June 26-29, 2002.

“Movable Boundaries and Cultural Cohesion: Representation in the Study of Contemporary Belarusan Music,”
CONVERGENCE AND CONGRUENCE: A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF JUDITH BECKER,
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 24, 2001.

“Dilemmas at the Cutting Edge: The Place of Identity in Belarusan Studies,”
THE ROLE OF BELARUSAN DIASPORA IN PRESERVING AND DEVELOPING BELARUSAN CULTURE CONFERENCE, The Francis Skaryna Belarusan Library in London, London, England, September 30, 2001, [read by a colleague to due travel restrictions re: 9/11].

“ Words, Symbolism, and Meaning: The Aesthetics of Language in Belarusan-Language Rock,”
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES
CONFERENCE, Denver, Colorado, November 9-12, 2000.

“Women in Belarusan Rock Music,”
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SLAVISTS, LEARNED SOCIETIES CONFERENCE, Sherbrooke, Quebec, June 1– 4, 1999.

“Of Mermaids and Rock Musicians: Issues in Contemporary and Traditional Belarusan Music,”
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SLAVISTS, LEARNED SOCIETIES CONFERENCE, Montreal, Quebec, June 1– 4, 1995.

“Between Women’s Words and Men’s Voices: Repertoire, Performance, and Gender in the Music of Palatz,”
WARTBURG WOMEN’S CONFERENCE, Waverly, Iowa, February 3rd, 1995.

“Quotations for a Kangaroo: Multi-textuality and Style in Belarusian Rock,”
SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY CONFERENCE for the session "Cross Cultural Perspectives in the Analysis of Popular Music," Seattle, Washington, October 25th, 1992.

“Belarusacka: Constructing and Evoking ‘Woman’ in Belarusian Expression,”
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SLAVISTS, LEARNED SOCIETIES CONFERENCE, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 1-4, 1992.

“Kupalle: Transition and Empowerment Through Belarusian Ritual,”
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, UKRAINIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Peasant Society and Culture in Eastern Europe, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2-4, 1992.

“States of Being: Redefining Belarusian-Canadian Identity in the 1990s,”
CONFERENCE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF BELARUSIAN COMMUNITIES IN CANADA, Toronto, Ontario, May 4-5, 1991.

“From Assertion to Aesthetics: Belarus as Subject in Poetic and Musical Texts,”
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SLAVISTS, LEARNED SOCIETIES CONFERENCE, Victoria, British Columbia, June 1, 1990.

“Musician as Cultural Broker: The Case of a Belarusian Folk Artist,”
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF SLAVISTS, LEARNED SOCIETIES CONFERENCE, Quebec City, June 3, 1989.

GUEST LECTURES

“Back in the B.S.S.R.: Subtle and Overt Modes of Protest in a Lukashenka-Defined Belarus”
WARTBURG COLLEGE, Philosophy and Literary Society, Waverly, February 2005.

“The Politics of Rock and Rock in Politics: Current Trend in Belarusan Contemporary Music”
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, Graduate Seminar in Ethnomusicology, Iowa City, April 25, 2002.

“Ethnomusicology in the Classroom K-12,”
WARTBURG COLLEGE Music Education Workshop, Waverly Iowa, November 1999.

“Ethnomusicology in the Classroom K-12,”
WARTBURG COLLEGE Music Education Workshop, Waverly Iowa, September 1997.

“Music in Israel,”
WARTBURG COLLEGE LS tier, guest lecture for Dr. Chip Bouzard, Waverly Iowa, February 1997.

“Theoretical Issues in Ethnomusicology,”
WARTBURG COLLEGE Communications Department, Waverly, Iowa, January, March 1995.

“Cultural Schizophrenia: Exploring and Defining Our Diversity,”
WARTBURG COLLEGE DIVERSITY WEEK Discussion Forum, Waverly, Iowa, January 1995.

“Listening to World Music,”
LUTHERAN OUTREACH, WARTBURG COLLEGE, Project Coordinator Reverend Ramona Bouzard, Dubuque, Iowa, March 1995.

“The Representation of Belarusian Musical Culture in the Current Belarusian Media,”
BELARUSIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS, Miensk, Belarus, October 1993.

“Research Methods in Ethnomusicology,”
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO, graduate level, guest lecturer for Dr. Eleanor McCrickard, Greensboro, North Carolina, October 1992.

“Experiences from Within: Musical Voices in Contemporary Belarus,”
CAREER SPECTRUM SERIES, Salem College School Of Music, Salem, North Carolina, November, 1992.