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A wide range of scholarly works, research articles, books, and other relevant sources  have formed the basis of knowledge for this project. Sources have been broken up by episode, and we encourage you to use these to learn more about the topics discussed.  

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Artemy Troitsky on Russian Rock Music, Censorship, and Ukraine

Bindas, Kenneth J., and Craig Houston. “‘Takin’ Care of Business’: Rock Music, Vietnam and the Protest Myth.” The Historian 52, no. 1 (1989): 1–23.

Bright, Terry. “Soviet Crusade against Pop.” Popular Music 5 (1985): 123–48.

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Brown, Timothy S. “Music as a Weapon? ‘Ton Steine Scherben’ and the Politics of Rock in Cold War Berlin.” German Studies Review 32, no. 1 (2009): 1–22.

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Elder, J. D. “Color, Music, and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music.” Ethnomusicology 8, no. 2 (1964): 128–36.

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James, David. “The Vietnam War and American Music.” Social Text, no. 23 (1989): 122–43.

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———. “The Vietnam War and American Music.” Social Text, no. 23 (1989): 122–43. 

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Kennedy, Kate. “‘A Music of Grief’: Classical Music and the First World War.” International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) 90, no. 2 (2014): 379–95.

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Labinjoh, Justin. “Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Protest Music and Social Processes in Nigeria.” Journal of Black Studies 13, no. 1 (1982): 119–34.

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McDonald, David A. “Poetics and the Performance of Violence in Israel/Palestine.” Ethnomusicology 53, no. 1 (2009): 58–85.

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Mitchell, Rebecca. “Introduction: Music and Power.” The Journal of Musicology 33, no. 3 (2016): 271–76.

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Mitchell, Tony. “Mixing Pop and Politics: Rock Music in Czechoslovakia before and after the Velvet Revolution.” Popular Music 11, no. 2 (1992): 187–203.

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O’Connell, John Morgan. “Music in War, Music for Peace: A Review Article.” Ethnomusicology 55, no. 1 (2011): 112–27. 

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———. “Music in War, Music for Peace: A Review Article.” Ethnomusicology 55, no. 1 (2011): 112–27.

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Opiyo, Lindsay McClain. “Music as Education, Voice, Memory, and Healing: Community Views on the Roles of Music in Conflict Transformation in Northern Uganda.” African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 5, no. 1 (2015): 41–65.

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Pekacz, Jolanta. “Did Rock Smash the Wall? The Role of Rock in Political Transition.” Popular Music 13, no. 1 (1994): 41–49.

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Rice, Timothy. “Ethnomusicology in Times of Trouble.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 46 (2014): 191–209.

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Street, John. “‘Fight the Power’: The Politics of Music and the Music of Politics.” Government and Opposition 38, no. 1 (2003): 113–30.

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Vandagriff, Rachel S. “Talking about a Revolution: Protest Music and Popular Culture, from Selma, Alabama, to Ferguson, Missouri.” Lied Und Populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture 60/61 (2015): 333–50.

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Weickhardt, George G. “Dictatorship and Music: How Russian Music Survived the Soviet Regime.” Russian History 31, no. 1/2 (2004): 121–41.

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Worley, Matthew. “One Nation Under the Bomb: The Cold War and British Punk to 1984.” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 5, no. 2 (2011): 65–83.

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Dmirti Beliakov on War Photography and Photojournalism

Alford, Kael. “Unembedding War Photography: An Interview with Kael Alford.” The Women’s Review of Books 31, no. 1 (2014): 16–17.

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Beckman, Karen. “Nothing to Say: The War on Terror and the Mad Photography of Roland Barthes.” Grey Room, no. 34 (2009): 104–34.

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Bounia, Alexandra, and Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert. “War Museums and Photography.” In Does War Belong in Museums?, edited by Wolfgang Muchitsch, 155–72. The Representation of Violence in Exhibitions. Transcript Verlag, 2013. 

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Butler, Judith. “Photography, War, Outrage.” PMLA 120, no. 3 (2005): 822–27.

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Dauenhauer, Katrin. “Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Photographs of War during the Bush and Obama Administrations.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 58, no. 4 (2013): 625–46.

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Griffin, Michael. “Media Images of War.” Media, War & Conflict 3, no. 1 (2010): 7–41.

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Hüppauf, Bernd. “The Emergence of Modern War Imagery in Early Photography.” History and Memory 5, no. 1 (1993): 130–51.

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Innes, Randy. “‘The Day Nobody Died’, War Photography, and the Violence of the Image.” RACAR: Revue d’art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review 39, no. 2 (2014): 88–99.

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———. “‘The Day Nobody Died’, War Photography, and the Violence of the Image.” RACAR: Revue d’art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review 39, no. 2 (2014): 88–99.

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Jakob, Joey Brooke. “Beyond Abu Ghraib: War Trophy Photography and Commemorative Violence.” Media, War & Conflict 10, no. 1 (2017): 87–104.

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Kennedy, Liam. “Soldier Photography: Visualising the War in Iraq.” Review of International Studies 35, no. 4 (2009): 817–33.

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Lee, Jung Joon. “No End to the Image War: Photography and the Contentious Memories of the Korean War.” The Journal of Korean Studies (1979-) 18, no. 2 (2013): 337–70.

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Lubow, Arthur. “Has War Changed, or Only War Photography?” The New York Times, October 13, 2022, sec. Arts. 

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McLaughlin, Greg. “From Luckless Tribe to Wireless Tribe: The Impact of Media Technologies on War Reporting.” In The War Correspondent, 63–90. Pluto Press, 2016.

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Nguyen, Viet Thanh. “Just Memory: War and the Ethics of Remembrance.” American Literary History 25, no. 1 (2013): 144–63.

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Payne, Carol, and Laura Brandon. “Guest Editors’ Introduction: Photography at War.” RACAR: Revue d’art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review 39, no. 2 (2014): 1–6.

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———. “Guest Editors’ Introduction: Photography at War.” RACAR: Revue d’art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review 39, no. 2 (2014): 1–6.

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Ritchin, Fred. “The Photography of Conflict.” Aperture, no. 97 (1984): 22–27.

———. “The Photography of Conflict.” Aperture, no. 97 (1984): 22–27.

“The Girl in the Photograph: The Vietnam War and the Making of National Memory on JSTOR,” February 6, 2023. 

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“‘Truthful as the Record of Heaven’ The Battle of Antietam and the Birth of Photojournalism on JSTOR,” February 6, 2023. 

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Maritia Sturken on Memorials and Memorialization

Music for this episode was composed by Damascus Kafumbe for the Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation at Middlebury College.

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Assmann, Aleida. “Transformations between History and Memory.” Social Research 75, no. 1 (2008): 49–72.

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Assmann, Jan, and John Czaplicka. “Collective Memory and Cultural Identity.” New German Critique, no. 65 (1995): 125–33.

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Berdahl, Daphne. “Voices at the Wall: Discourses of Self, History and National Identity at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.” History and Memory 6, no. 2 (1994): 88–124.

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Bleiker, Roland. “Art After 9/11.” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 31, no. 1 (2006): 77–99.

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Curtis, Paulette G. “Filling in the Blanks: Deriving Meaning from Objects in the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Collection.” Practicing Anthropology 33, no. 2 (2011): 11–15.

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Doss, Erika. “De Oppresso Liber and Reflecting Absence: Ground Zero Memorials and the War on Terror.” American Quarterly 65, no. 1 (2013): 203–14.

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Leggatt, Matthew. “Deflecting Absence: 9/11 Fiction and the Memorialization of Change.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 18, no. 2 (2016): 203–21. 

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Marcuse, Harold. “Holocaust Memorials: The Emergence of a Genre.” The American Historical Review 115, no. 1 (2010): 53–89.

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Marstine, Janet, Elizabeth Greenspan, Michael Pickering, Paul H. Williams, and Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh. “Ethics and the 9/11 Museum Complex.” Anthropology Today 27, no. 4 (2011): 28–29.

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Meigs, Mark. “Body Counts and Memorials: The Unexpected Effect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a Model of Memory.” In The Transatlantic Sixties, edited by Grzegorz Kosc, Clara Juncker, Sharon Monteith, and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, 31–65. Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade. Transcript Verlag, 2013. 

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Nora, Pierre. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire.” Representations, no. 26 (1989): 7–24. 

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Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl. “A Space of Loss: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial.” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-) 50, no. 3 (1997): 156–71. 

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Said, Edward W. “Invention, Memory, and Place.” Critical Inquiry 26, no. 2 (2000): 175–92.

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Sodaro, Amy. “MEMORIAL MUSEUMS: Promises and Limits.” In Exhibiting Atrocity, 162–84. Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence. Rutgers University Press, 2018. 

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Sorvig, Kim. “Private Grief, Public Place.” Landscape Architecture 98, no. 10 (2008): 158–65.

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Sturken, Marita. “The Aesthetics of Absence: Rebuilding Ground Zero.” American Ethnologist 31, no. 3 (2004): 311–25.

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———. “The Remembering of Forgetting: Recovered Memory and the Question of Experience.” Social Text, no. 57 (1998): 103–25.

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———. “The Wall, the Screen, and the Image: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial.” Representations, no. 35 (1991): 118–42. 

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Wagner, Anne M. “Once Upon a Time: The Vietnam Memorial at Age Twenty-Five.” The Threepenny Review, no. 112 (2008): 19–20.

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John Lennon on Conflict Graffiti

Brenner, Lexa. “The Bansky Effect: Revolutionizing Humanitarian Protest Art.” Harvard International Review 40, no. 2 (2019): 34–37.

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Brewer, Devon D. “Hip Hop Graffiti Writers’ Evaluations of Strategies to Control Illegal Graffiti.” Human Organization 51, no. 2 (1992): 188–96.

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Campos, Ricardo. “Youth, Graffiti, and the Aestheticization of Transgression.” Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice 59, no. 3 (2015): 17–40.

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Chackal, Tony. “Of Materiality and Meaning: The Illegality Condition in Street Art.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74, no. 4 (2016): 359–70.

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Cowick, Carmen. “Preserving Street Art: Uncovering the Challenges and Obstacles.” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 34, no. 1 (2015): 29–44.

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Goalwin, Gregory. “The Art of War: Instability, Insecurity, and Ideological Imagery in Northern Ireland’s Political Murals, 1979–1998.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 26, no. 3 (2013): 189–215.

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Gopnik, Blake. “REVOLUTION IN A CAN: Graffiti Is as American as Apple Pie, but Much Easier to Export.” Foreign Policy, no. 189 (2011): 92–93.

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Khosravi, Shahram. “Graffiti in Tehran.” Anthropology Now 5, no. 1 (2013): 1–17.

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Lachmann, Richard. “Graffiti as Career and Ideology.” American Journal of Sociology 94, no. 2 (1988): 229–50.

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Larkin, Craig. “Jerusalem’s Separation Wall and Global Message Board: Graffiti, Murals, and the Art of Sumud.” The Arab Studies Journal 22, no. 1 (2014): 134–69.

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Loeffler, Silvia. “Urban Warriors.” Irish Arts Review (2002-) 29, no. 1 (2012): 70–75.

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Marche, Guillaume. “Expressivism and Resistance: Graffiti as an Infrapolitical Form of Protest against the War on Terror.” Revue Française d’études Américaines, no. 131 (2012): 78–96.

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Mitchell, W. J. T. “Image, Space, Revolution: The Arts of Occupation.” Critical Inquiry 39, no. 1 (2012): 8–32.

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Patel, Samir S. “Writing on the Wall.” Archaeology 60, no. 4 (2007): 50–53.

Peteet, Julie. “The Writing on the Walls: The Graffiti of the Intifada.” Cultural Anthropology 11, no. 2 (1996): 139–59.

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Qualey, M. Lynx, Lilas Taha, Susan Abulhawa, Susan Darra, and Alexandra Chreiteh. “Constructing Identity Up Against a Wall.” The Women’s Review of Books 33, no. 4 (2016): 26–27.

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Riggle, Nicholas Alden. “Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 68, no. 3 (2010): 243–57.

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Salib, Peter N. “The Law of Banksy: Who Owns Street Art?” The University of Chicago Law Review 82, no. 4 (2015): 2293–2328.

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Salih, Ruba, and Sophie Richter-Devroe. “Cultures of Resistance in Palestine and Beyond: On the Politics of Art, Aesthetics, and Affect.” The Arab Studies Journal 22, no. 1 (2014): 8–27.

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Salopek, Paul. “CONFLICT GRAFFITI: The Art of War.” Foreign Policy, no. 189 (2011): 94–95.

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Sansur, Rasha. “Painting Emotions: The West Bank Separation Wall as an Evocative Object and Graffiti as a Meaning-Making Process.” Material Culture 49, no. 2 (2017): 1–23.

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Stevis-Gridneff, Matina, Jim Tankersley, and Alan Rappeport. “Russia-Ukraine War: E.U. Agrees to a Price Cap for Sale of Russian Oil.” The New York Times, December 2, 2022, sec. World. 

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Tellidis, Ioannis, and Anna Glomm. “Street Art as Everyday Counterterrorism? The Norwegian Art Community’s Reaction to the 22 July 2011 Attacks.” Cooperation and Conflict 54, no. 2 (2019): 191–210.

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