ADRIANA HELBIG is Assistant Professor of Music and Affiliated Faculty with the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University (2005) where she has also taught in the Ukrainian Studies Program. Her articles on Romani (Gypsy) music, post-socialist cultural policy, and global hip-hop have appeared in edited collections and journals such as Yearbook for Traditional Music, Current Musicology, and Anthropology of East Europe Review.