Back in the BSSR: Power, Protest and Meaning through Belarusian Rock and Popular Culture

Maria Paula Survilla is an associate professor of music at Wartburg College and president of the North American Association for the Advancement of Belarusan Studies. Her research interests include the role of contemporary music in the construction of personal and national identities in post-Soviet Belarus. She began fieldwork in Eastern Europe in 1989 and was funded as a Fulbright-Hayes scholar in 1993. She is the author of Of Mermaids and Rock Singers: Placing the Self and Constructing the Nation through Belarusan Contemporary Music (2002).