By Norient on May 16, 2013
By Norient on 16 May 2013 in
BLOG
The two day festival “Lusotronics“ in Berlin celebrates the digital, urban music lifestyles of the four main countries of the Portugese speaking world: Angola, Brasil, Mozambique and Portugal. Not to be missed!
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Angola, baile funk, Batida, Belém, Bonde Do Rolê, Brazil, Cibelle, Dama Do Bling, Daniel Haaksman, DJ Comrade, DJ Marfox, Edu K, Funana, Gretchen, João Brasil, ku house, kuduro, Lisbon, Man Recordings, Maputo, Portugal, Rio de Janeiro, Tecno Brega, Throes & The Shine, Titica |
By Norient on April 26, 2013
By Norient on 26 April 2013 in
VIDEO
Programming our annual Norient Music Film Festival we come along a great variety of documentary films – some you can watch for free online. We start sharing them in our new series «Digging Music Documentaries».
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged 100% Galsen, Alemu Aga, Brazil, Cheikh Sene, David New, Digging Music Documentaries, Documentary Film, Konrad Dantas, Ostentation Funk, Renato Barreiros, Senegal, The Harp of King David, Tuki, Tuki Bass, Venezuela, Vincent Moon |
By Gregory Scruggs on May 23, 2012
By Gregory Scruggs and Alexandra Lippman on 23 May 2012 in
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.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged Brazil, Dossier World Music 2.0, funk carioca, Ghetto Culture, Global Ghettotech, naoj v1, norient academic online journal, Rio de Janeiro, Soundscapes, World Music 2.0 |
By Alexandra Lippman on May 21, 2012
By Alexandra Lippman on 21 May 2012 in
AUDIO
The Sound Ethnography Project is a sonic mapping experiment in novel ethnographic methods and forms. A californian team of students of anthropology is trying to understand and represent relationships of sound and space.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Brazil, Ecuador, maps, sound ethnography, Soundscapes, United States |
By Moses Iten on March 16, 2012
By Moses Iten on 16 March 2012 in
AUDIO
Moses Iten digs deep into Voodoo music from Haiti and related sounds from New Orleans, Colombia, Sudan, Cuba, Brazil and Congo. He pulls audio fetishes from archives to conjure up tales of Zombie Makeup.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Andre Rodriguez Pena, Angelique Kidjo, Ashanti, Baloji, Brazil, Celia Cruz, Charles Sheffield, Colombia, Congo, Congopunq, Cuba, Djowamon, Drummers Of The Societe Absolument Guinin, El Guincho, Feloche, Francisco Sanchez, Frantz Casseus, Graeme Revell, Haiti, Izuru Utsumi, Konono No1, Les Baxter Orchestra, Massak, Mongo Santamaria, Neil Sparkes, New Orleans, Orishas, Papa Humbertico, Pierre Cheriza Fenelus, Rango, Robert Drasnin, Skream, The Creole Choir of Cuba, The Mystic Sound System, Thelma Soares, voodoo |
By Norient on June 6, 2011
By Stefanie Alisch and Nadine Siegert on 6 June 2011 in
ACADEMIC
This article explores the role of Kuduro, the popular Angolan electronic music and dance style in the process of updating the national Angolan identity called angolanidade to the conditions of the new millennium.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged Africa, Agostinho Neto, Angola, Angolanidade, António Ole, Batida, Brazil, Buraka Som Sistema, carnival, dance, DJ Mpula, DJ Sebem, Dog Murras, Dossier World Music 2.0, Frédéric Galliano, Gerhard Kubik, Global Ghettotech, Globale Nischen, Ikonoklasta, Jorge António, Killamu, kizomba, kuduro, Kuduro - Fogo no Museke, Kwame Appiah, Les Princes de Kuduro, Lisbon, M.I.A, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Marissa Moorman, Muana Po, Ngola Ritmos, O ritmo do Ngola Ritmos, Portugal, Puto Prata, Radio Fazuma, Rainha Ginga, semba, Tony Amado, Viriato da Cruz, World Music 2.0 |
