"No Other Home: The Crimean Tatars" is a work-in-progress collaboration between Maria Sonevytsky, an ethnomusicology PhD candidate at Columbia University, and Alison Cartwright, an award-winning New York City based photographer. In May of 2008, they travelled together throughout Crimea, an autonomous region of Ukraine, gathering the stories and songs that underscore the Crimean Tatars's decades-long struggle to return to their motherland following their brutal deportation by Stalin in 1944.  read more »

This ethnographic journey into the New York Salsa scene of the 1990s is the first of its kind. Written by a musical insider, and from the perspective of salsa musicians, Sounding Salsa is a pioneering study that offers detailed accounts of these musicians grappling with intercultural tensions and commericial pressures. Christopher Washburne, himself an accomplished salsa musician, examines the organizational structures, recording processes, rehearsing, and gigging of salsa bands, paying particular attention to how they created a sense of community, privileged "the people" over artistic and commercial concerns, and incited cultural pride during performances.

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