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    Creating «the Ultimate Retro-Future»: Music, Nostalgia and Futurity in «Tron» (1982) and «Tron: Legacy» (2010)
    Academic Text by Elizabeth Clendinning
    Tron, a computer program champion who fights for the human Users against the megalomaniacal Master Control Program of the ENCOM computer mainframe.
  •  Cover of the CD Rapública (Label Columbia, 1994)
    Lusofonia, a (R)Evolução: Discourses of Atlantic Roots and Routes in «Luso World Music»
    Academic Text by Barbara Alge
    The development of a «Luso world music», a transnational musical movement that brings together popular and traditional musics of the Portuguese-speaking world and departing mainly from the city of Lisbon.
  • photo: Pxhere
    In Bayern wird randaliert: Bayerischer Mundart-Rap in dei G'sicht!
    Academic Text by Julian Warner
    Der Autor beleuchtet, inwieweit sich Akteure im bayerischen Mundart-Rap hegemonialen Diskursen um Sprache, Repräsentation und Rassismus widersetzen.
  • Back to the Future? (photo: Miguel Vaca/Wikimedia)
    Back to the Future? Two Musical Pasts and Their Futures
    Academic Text by Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius
    How we might understand and conceptualize nostalgia for past futures? This article focuses the cold war nostalgia and on welfare state utopias.
  • photo: Janson_G/Pixabay
    Can’s «Mother Sky» in Skolimowsky's «Deep End» (1970)
    Academic Text by Benjamin Court
    Psychedelic Echoes of German New Left Negative Utopianism.
  • photo: Jet Tone Production
    Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of: Music and the Future in Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express (1994)
    Academic Text by Brooke McCorkle
    Music and the Future in Wong Kar-wai’s «Chungking Express» (1994)
  • Mabo Wo Din.
    «Never Go Back»
    Academic Text by Florian Carl
    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.
  • Cover Image of Vodoo Funk.
    MP3 Blogging and the Urban Soundscape
    Academic Text by Portia Seddon
    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.
  • Rocinha Favela Rio de Janeiro (photo: chensiyuan, GNU License)
    From Funkification to Pacification
    Academic Text by Gregory Scruggs, Alexandra Lippman
    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.
  • Lady Ponce.
    Local Cosmopolitan Bikutsi
    Academic Text by Anja Brunner
    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.

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