14 min
Interview with Ukranian singer Jamala about Crimean Tatar music Cafe International
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Our guest this week on Cafe International is is Ukrainian singer Jamala. She has a new album called QIRIM – or Crimea, dedicated to the folk music of Crimea. In 2016, Jamala won the Eurovision Song Contest with her song, 1944, about the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Crimean Tatar population from that peninsula that year. One of those deported and sent to Central Asia was Jamala’s Great-Grandmother.
We will also hear from professor Maria Sonevytsky (Bard College) about the history of Crimean Tatar music.
With host Dan Rosenberg
Our guest this week on Cafe International is is Ukrainian singer Jamala. She has a new album called QIRIM – or Crimea, dedicated to the folk music of Crimea. In 2016, Jamala won the Eurovision Song Contest with her song, 1944, about the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Crimean Tatar population from that peninsula that year. One of those deported and sent to Central Asia was Jamala’s Great-Grandmother.
We will also hear from professor Maria Sonevytsky (Bard College) about the history of Crimean Tatar music.
With host Dan Rosenberg
14 min