NORIENT BOOK ON MUSIC AND GLOBALIZATION
NORIENT ACADEMIC ONLINE JOURNAL
5. NORIENT MUSIKFILM FESTIVAL BERN (01/2014)
norient academic online journal
(*) Call For Articles: Performing Exotica
ACADEMICWhen drawing on music from far away places musicians have often focused on “otherness” and “difference”. The 3rd volume of the Norient Academic Online Journal (NAOJ) aims to explore these representations that have emerged in the 21st century.
(*) Local Cosmopolitan Bikutsi
ACADEMIC(*) Encountering Cameroonian Pop Music in Yaoundé and the Challenge of Similarity. // In this paper, Bikutsi pop is discussed within the framework of collective “aesthetic cosmopolitanism” as proposed by Motti Regev.
(*) “Never go back”
ACADEMIC(*) Ghanaian Gospel Music, Born-Again Christianity, and the Nonconformity of the Ethnographer. // This discussion of the gospel phenomenon in Ghana will be framed by a critical reflection on ethnomusicological methodology.
(*) MP3 Blogging and the Urban Soundscape
ACADEMIC(*) Within the past decade, African-, Latin American-, and Caribbean-centered popular music weblogs have emerged as complex mediated spaces of cultural debate and transformation. // Notes on the Ethnography of Mediated Music.
(*) From Funkification to Pacification
ACADEMIC(*) Re-Sounding Space For a New Rio de Janeiro. // As an anthropologist and urban planning researcher with specialties in music and sound, we have combined our backgrounds to examine the politics of reconstructing soundscapes in Rio de Janeiro.
(*) Submission guidelines for the Norient Academic Online Journal
ACADEMIC(*) In order to maintain a consistent style within the Norient Academic Online Journal these submission guidelines should be followed.
(*) Call for Articles – norient academic online journal
ACADEMIC(*) Norient is looking for academic articles on popular music in Asia, Africa and Latin America. This call for articles will result in the first volume and issue of the norient academic online journal.
