YCC episode with Ioanida Costache by RosaSenCis

Dr. Ioanida Costache is an ethnomusicologist, activist, musician and filmmaker. She earned her PhD at Stanford University. Her dissertation "Sounding Romani Sonic-Subjectivity: Counterhistory, Identity Formation and Affect in Romanian-Roma Music" explores issues of race and ethnicity, performance/construction of identity, cultural memory, trauma, and history as they intersect in Romani musico-oral traditions. Currently, she is on a Fulbright fellowship in Romania. She had held visiting fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the USC Shoah Foundation. Her writing has been published in Critical Romani Studies, Bridge Magazine, Baricade and Decat o Revista. Her short documentary, Light Upon (2014) paints a portrait of her violin teacher, Nicu Ciotoi and touches on issues of identity and heritage through musical transmission.