Cartographies of Meaning

At the 64th annual Grammy Awards ceremony, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky posed the question: “What is more opposite to music?” and answered, “The silence of ruined cities and killed people.” Dressed in his now-iconic khaki t-shirt, Zelensky evoked in a short video the silence which Ukrainians are facing in their own land, and exhorted musicians to support them in their fight against Russia. “Fill the silence with your music,” he said. “Fill it today, to tell our story. Tell the truth about this war. Support us in any way you can, any but not silence. And then, peace will come to all our cities the war is destroying.”