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Call For Articles: Performing Exotica

By David-Emil Wickström on April 29, 2013

By David-Emil Wickström on 29 April 2013 in ACADEMIC

When 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.

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The Norient Academic Online Journal

By Norient on October 8, 2012

By Norient and David-Emil Wickström on 8 October 2012 in ACADEMIC

The Norient academic online journal offers peer-reviewed cross-cultural (case) studies of diverse aesthetical approaches to music and sound in our increasingly transnational and digitalized world.

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First Volume of the Norient Academic Online Journal

By David-Emil Wickström on May 23, 2012

By David-Emil Wickström on 23 May 2012 in ACADEMIC

From 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.

Posted in ACADEMIC, XFEATURED | Tagged cosmopolitanism, Global Ghettotech, naoj v1, norient academic online journal, reflexive ethnography | Leave a response

Local Cosmopolitan Bikutsi

By Anja Brunner on May 23, 2012

By Anja Brunner on 23 May 2012 in 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.

Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged aesthetic cosmopolitanism, Africa, Beti, Bikutsi, Cameroon, cosmopolitanism, K-Tino, Lady Ponce, Majoie, Majoie Ayi, Motti Regev, naoj v1, norient academic online journal, World Music | 2 Responses

“Never go back”

By Florian Carl on May 23, 2012

By Florian Carl on 23 May 2012 in 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.

Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged Africa, Christianity, ethnography, Ghana, gospel, gospel highlife, Highlife, naoj v1, norient academic online journal, Pentecostal, Popular Music | 3 Responses

MP3 Blogging and the Urban Soundscape

By Portia Seddon on May 23, 2012

By Portia Seddon on 23 May 2012 in 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.

Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged aesthetics, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Brian Shimkovitz, digital ethnography, DJ Chief Boima, Dossier South Africa, Dossier World Music 2.0, ethnography, ghettotech, Global Ghettotech, MP3, MP3 blogs, naoj v1, norient academic online journal, Reccord Digging, record digging, Soundscapes, South Africa, Strut Records, Urban Music, Wayne Marshall, World Music 2.0 | 2 Responses

From Funkification to Pacification

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 | 1 Response

The Future(s) of Music? – Call For Articles

By Norient on April 19, 2012

By Norient on 19 April 2012 in ACADEMIC

Notions of Prospective Musics in Utopian Movies and Literature. – Call for Articles for norient academic journal Vol. II.

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Submission guidelines for the Norient Academic Online Journal

By David-Emil Wickström on January 30, 2012

By David-Emil Wickström on 30 January 2012 in ACADEMIC

In order to maintain a consistent style within the Norient Academic Online Journal these submission guidelines should be followed.

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Call for Articles – norient academic online journal

By David-Emil Wickström on January 15, 2011

By David-Emil Wickström on 15 January 2011 in 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.

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