David-Emil Wickström studied Scandinavian studies, musicology and ethnomusicology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Bergen and University of Copenhagen. He has conducted research on the revival of Norwegian traditional vocal music and the Ragnar Vigdal tradition and on Post-Soviet popular music in St. Petersburg and Berlin (the resulting dissertation was published as Okna otkroi!). He currently administrates the Bachelor degree program “Pop Music Design” at the Pop Academy Baden-Württemberg – University for Popular Music and Music Business in Mannheim, Germany and is editor-in-chief of the Norient Academic Online Journal.