This year, a famous Ukrainian rock band, Okean Elzy, celebrated its 30-year anniversary. The group has become a symbol of resistance for all generations of independent Ukraine. For my parents, Okean ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Kirill Gerstein’s immense recording project “Music in Time of War” surveys works by artists who witnessed World War I and the Armenian genocide. By ...

Edwin Starr’s song “War” from 1970 asked the question, “War. What is it good for?” – and answered emphatically “Absolutely nothing!” One thing war has been good for, though, is as a fertile topic – ...

KYIV -- A rosary with five bullet casings interspersed among the beads is the first lot to draw bids. "What I really like is how here we've got a weapon remade into art," says the auctioneer, a big, ...

Music is a powerful tool of resistance, and has been used this way for centuries. In the late years of USSR music played a big role in supporting dissent and new ideas. More recently, in Russia, which ...

As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears the end of its third year, music has become an important way to keep people's spirits up — and a pillar of Ukraine’s defense. Motivational rock songs.

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said that "Ukraine actually never had stable traditions of real statehood." But in the decades since the country gained independence, groups of ...