NORIENT BOOK ON MUSIC AND GLOBALIZATION
NORIENT ACADEMIC ONLINE JOURNAL
5. NORIENT MUSIKFILM FESTIVAL BERN (01/2014)
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First Volume of the Norient Academic Online Journal
ACADEMICFrom bikutsi over funk carioca and gospel to the urban soundscapes of mp3-blogs this issue presents four fascinating articles spanning fieldwork in Germany, Ghana, Cameroon, Brazil and the virtual mp3-blogsphere.
Local Cosmopolitan Bikutsi
ACADEMICEncountering 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”
ACADEMICGhanaian 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
ACADEMICWithin 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
ACADEMICRe-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.
