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NORIENT BOOK ON MUSIC AND GLOBALIZATION
SONIC TRACES – RADIO SHOW – 10 JUNI 2013
NORIENT ACADEMIC ONLINE JOURNAL
5. NORIENT MUSIKFILM FESTIVAL BERN (01/2014)
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Tags: Africa / Dossier South Africa / K'Naan / Somalia / World Music 2.0
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Thomas Burkhalter
Thomas Burkhalter, an ethnomusicologist, music journalist and cultural producer from Bern (Switzerland), runs the research project «Global Niches – Music in a transnational World» at the Zurich University of the Arts. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of norient – Network for Local and Global Sounds and Media Culture. He produced and tours with the audio-visual performances «Sonic Traces: From the Arab World», «Sonic Traces: From Switzerland», co-curates the norient Musikfilm Festival), and co-directed the documentary film «Buy More Incense» (2002) about Indian and Pakistani musicians of second and third generation in the UK. His dissertation «Creating Sense out of Chaos: New Sounds from Beirut« researched empirically experimental and popular music in Lebanon (University of Bern and Oldenburg, 2009). His book «Local Music Scenes and Globalization: Transnational Platforms in Beirut» is going to be published by Routledge in 2013.
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