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By Emma Dabiri on September 7, 2017
By Emma Dabiri on 7 September 2017 in
VIDEO
With her video «Orangutan» Italian artist and activist Karima 2G responded on racist comments of Italian politicians in the context of the election of Italy’s first black government minister Cécile Kyenge in 2013.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Belonging, Blackness, Cécile Kyenge, Dolores Valandro, Emma Dabiri, Identity, Italy, Karima 2G, Mario Borghezio, Migration, Music and Politics, Orangutan, racism, Roberto Calderoli, Second Generation, Seismographic Sounds |
By Martin Stokes on April 7, 2017
By Martin Stokes and Thomas Burkhalter (Norient) on 7 April 2017 in
STORIES
What happens to Exotica when unfamiliar sounds are only few mouse-clicks away? Is listening to «foreign» music a private matter or a political activity? An email interview with scholar Martin Stokes.
Posted in STORIES | Tagged Anthropology, Barbara Engh, colonialism, Cultural Colonialism, Ethnocentrism, Ethnomusicology, eurocentric, Exotica, Exoticism, Martin Stokes, Music and Politics, Neoliberalism, Orientalism, Othering, Parody, postcolonial, Sampling, satire, Seapunk, Seismographic Sounds, Vaporwave |
By Werner Hasler on February 7, 2017
By Werner Hasler on 7 February 2017 in
AUDIO
In the podcast Palestinian singer Kamilya Jubran talks about her biography, being a musician in Europe, the power of music, and her song «Suite Nomade, Pt. 1», based on poetry from World War I about the state of war and how it effects fragile communities.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Belonging, Experience, Freedom, Kamilya Jubran, Migration, Music and Politics, Palestine, Sarah Murcia, Seismographic Sounds, Seismographic Sounds Podcasts, War, Werner Hasler |
