(*) First Volume of the Norient Academic Online Journal

By David-Emil Wickström on 23 Mai 2012 in ACADEMIC

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David-Emil Wickström (born 1978 in Bergen, Norway) studied Scandinavian studies, musicology and ethnomusicology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Bergen. In 2003 he completed his candidatus philologiae degree in ethnomusicology from the University of Bergen with a thesis on the revival of Norwegian traditional vocal music and the Ragnar Vigdal tradition. After spending 18 months doing fieldwork in the popular music scene of St. Petersburg from 2004 to 2006 he was employed as a phd fellow and a research assistant at the University of Copenhagen. There he successfully defended his dissertation on Post-Soviet popular music in St. Petersburg and Berlin. He currently administrates the Bachelor degree program “Pop Music Design” at the Pop Academy Baden-Württemberg – University for Popular Music and Music Business in Mannheim, Germany and is editor-in-chief of the Norient academic online journal.