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MUSIKETHNOLOGISCHE HÖHENFLÜGE IN EINER POSTKOLONIALEN WELT
Ein Plädoyer für die Musikethnologie in der Schweiz
Die Musikethnologie droht bald komplett aus den Lehrplänen der Schweizer Universitäten zu verschwinden. Das darf und muss nicht sein! Ein Plädoyer von Thomas Burkhalter |  | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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GLOBAL GHETTOTECH
Fresh Musics from a post-colonial World
The Brazilian journalist Camilo Rocha interviews the ethnomusicologist, DJ and norient writer Wayne Marshall about the latest musical trends around the globe: Reggaeton, Kwaito, Kuduro, and Grime. |  | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"GLOBALISTS“ SEEK PERIPHERAL SOUNDS
The New US-Ghettotech-Generation
Most DJs direct their ears to a few musical Meccas in the First World,
such as New York, London, Berlin, and Paris. This decade, however, a
new category has emerged, globalist DJs who go much further in their
musical explorations.
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HIDDEN TRUTHS
Music, Politics and Censorship in Lukashenko’s Belarus'
Lemez Lovas and Maya Medich turn their attention to Belarus, an authoritarian former Soviet country buffering the EU and Russia, where freedom of information and expression have become the unrelenting victims in an increasingly destructive battle for political control. |  | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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GET STARTED, ROMANIA!
Rumäniens neue Generation elektronischer Musiker
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ZENSUR KENNT KEINE GRENZEN
Zur Weltkonferenz von Freemuse in Istanbul
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SHAGGY IN TANSANIA
Beobachtungen rund um ein Reggae-Konzert in Dar es Salaam
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ART CANNOT BE NOT POLITICAL
Cultural Impacts from and on Marginalised Regions: the Balkans
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HEUTE BUNDES, GESTERN WARSCHAU
Gedanken über Trends der St. Petersburger Populärmusik
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THE RISE OF REGGAETON
From Daddy Yankee to Tego Calderón, and beyond
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NORIENT
COLLABORATION
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RESPECT YOUR MOTHERLAND!!!
Seit 2008 arbeitet NORIENT eng mit dem
Zürcher Kollektiv MOTHERLAND zusammen. Motherland organisiert
seit 2007 musikalische Shuttleflüge in Afrikas Boom-Regionen
von morgen.
Immer am Ersten Freitag im Monat im Helsinki
Klub in Zürich.
Next: Freitag, 2. Mai 2008
Motherland calling from Banjul
Weitere Dates siehe MOTHERLAND
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