Full Media & Publications List

All print, radio and television work

A 12 minute read

• publications
• media
• BBC Radio 2
• BBC Radio 3
• BBC Radio 4
• BBC World Service
• BBC Russian Service
• SVT2 Sweden
• CBC Canada
• Al Jazeera
• UNESCO
• Marie Claire
• Jerusalem Post
• Songlines
• FRoots
• Wired

Radio & TV

Presenting / Producing

• World Class Brass - the Cultural Heritage of The British Empire, a 3 part series by Nightjar for BBC Radio 2, 2012
• Digging For Trouble - the Politics of Archaeology in Jerusalem, DigressMedia/Journeyman Pictures, Al Jazeera, 2007
• Forbidden Games - Video Games as Propaganda in the Middle East, DigressMedia/Journeyman Pictures, YLE Finland, 2007
• “La Palestine – Douze Points?”, Palestine and the Eurovision Song Contest, DigressMedia/Journeyman Pictures, SVT2 Sweden 2007
• Trustbuilding and Coexistence in Jerusalem, CBC Radio Canada, 2007
• Цензура музыки в Беларусе, Гражданин мира, BBC Russian, 2007
• Podcast: Guide to Balkan Brass, Songlines Magazine, 2007
• The Musician and the Secret Policeman - Censorship and Reconciliation in Apartheid South Africa, Outlook, BBC World Service, 2006
• The IPO at 60, Front Row, Radio 4, 2006
• Ukraine - Backwards to the Future, 22 mins, Masterpiece, BBC World Service, 2006
• Music, Technology And The Orange Revolution - Ukraine, 22 mins, Masterpiece, BBC World Service, 2005
• ‘The Culture of Chernobyl, 20 years on’, CBC Radio Canada, 2006
• Роль культури в Оранжевой Революции), Гражданин мира, BBC Russian, 2005
• Various packages, NewsHour, BBC World Service 2006-7
• Various packages, BBC Russian Service, 2005-8

Contributing

• Guest contributor (on hybrid immigrant musical culture in 1950s London), Great British Faith, with Hardeep Kohli Singh, BBC Radio 2, 2010
• Guest contributor (on the annual Hasidic New Year pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine), World Update with Dan Damon , BBC World Service, 2010
• Guest contributor (on the how to play Balkan Gypsy style trumpet), Serbian Trumpets, Just Radio, BBC Radio 4, 2010
• Guest contributor (on repression of music and freedom of speech in Belarus), The Beat, BBC World Service, 2007
• Guest contributor (on Yiddish klezmer music), Dressing The Mix, World Music Day, BBC Radio 3, 2005
• Researcher (on censorship of artists in Uzbekistan), An Independent Mind, Channel 4, dir. Rex Bloomstein, 2008
• Researcher (on extraordinary vocal artists around the world), The Voice, part 2, Masterpiece, prod. Nick Rankin, 22 mins, BBC World Service 2005
• Interview (on the satirical art project, The Election Song Contest), The World Tonight, BBC Radio 4, 2012
• Dozens of interviews to international media on the subject of culture and politics

Print

Publications

• Ukraine, The Rough Guide to World Music (Vol 2, 3rd Edition): Europe and Asia (Rough Guide Music Reference, 2009)
• “Hidden Truths: Music Politics and Censorship in Lukashenko’s Belarus”, Freemuse, 2007
• “The Protection and Promotion of Musical Diversity”, UNESCO / International Music Council, ed Richard Letts, 2006 (main source, Belarus section)
• Gucaholic, fRoots, 2003 (cited in Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora, Carol Silverman, Oxford University Press, 2012)
• Encyclopedia of World Pop
• Forthcoming article on automatic English language exercise creation using corpus linguistics, CALICO journal, April 2016 (co-author alongside principal authors Valentin Werner and Maria Lehl)

Arts, technology and politics articles

• World Music and Soft Power: Who’s Playing Whom?, WOMEX Guide, 2012
• “Beginner’s Guide to The Klezmatics”, October 2012, Songlines
• Not Just Aid You Can Dance To - A Call For a New World Music, WOMEX Guide, 2011
• Altogether Now: Rethinking Strategies for New Artists, WOMEX Guide, 2010
• “Beginner’s Guide to Goran Bregovic”, November 2009, Songlines
• Profile of Palestinian Israeli singer Mira Awad , Jewish Chronicle, 2008
• Wet Sounds - a Sound Art Festival , Jewish Chronicle, 2008
• Hear O Israel - Herbie Hancock’s lost recording, Jewish Quarterly, 2008
• All Kidding Aside - Israeli-Palestinian Artistic Collaboration in Jerusalem, Jerusalem Post, 2007
• Jerusalem, a Musical Postcard, Songlines Magazine, 2007
• Profile of Chernobyl activist Dina Mazur , Hero Of The Month, Marie Claire UK, 2006
• Regular Europe album reviewer, Songlines magazine, 2005-2010
• Gyí!, BeshoDrom , album sleeve notes, 2005
• Ticking Again, Kharkov Klezmer Band , album sleeve notes, Music&Words 2002
• Short pieces for Wired UK, The Voice, fRoots

Editorial

• Jewish Chronicle, acting Arts Editor, Jan-July 2008
• OpenAir Radio FM, Oxford University, Founding Co-Director, 2002-3
• Oxygen FM, Oxford University, Head of World News, 1996-98

Conferences

• Curator: Music Industry Conference chair, with Nadia El Imam, WOMEX, Thessaloniki, 2012
• Keynote Speech & Award Presentation (to Pussy Riot representative Sasha Cheparukhin): WOMEX 12 Professional Excellence Award, WOMEX, Thessaloniki, 2012
• Chair:Copyright - a Global Perspective, WOMEX, Thessaloniki, 2012
• Presentation: World Music and Language Education, WOMEX, Thessaloniki, 2012
• Panellist: Music Education Networking, WOMEX, Thessaloniki, 2012
• Panellist: Appily Ever After - Apps and World Music, WOMEX, Thessaloniki, 2012
• Chair: Who’s Playing Whom? World Music as Cultural Diplomacy, WOMEX, Copenhagen, 2011
• Chair: ,Neighbourhood Watch: The view from across the tracks, WOMEX, Copenhagen, 2010
• Chair: The Economy of Music: New Methods for Breaking Artists, WOMEX, Copenhagen, 2009
• Report presentation: “Hidden Truths: Music, Politics and Censorship in Lukashenko’s Belarus”, 3rd World Conference on Music and Censorship, Freemuse, Bilgi University, Istanbul, 2006
• Report presentation: Censorship in Belarus, Freemuse/Swedish Helsinki Committee, Gothenburg Book Fair, Gothenburg, 2006
• Panellist: Cultural Boycotts, WOMEX, Seville, 2004
• Panellist: Anglosemitic Bastards, WOMEX, Rotterdam, 2001

Teaching

• Workshop Assistant (for Nigel Osborne): Music therapy for special needs education and palliative care, Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, India, 2015
• Visiting Artist: Experimental voice & music theory, Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Arts, Tamil Nadu, India, 2015
• Visiting Lecturer: Arts and Coexistence, Israeli-Palestinian Olive Tree Educational Trust, City University, London, 2005
• Workshop leader: Defending and Promoting Human Rights in the South Caucasus, Article 19, Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev, 2005
• Workshop leader: Roma and klezmer brass music: JMI Klezfest, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, 2004