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Hauke Dorsch

    I am the director of the African Music Archives in Mainz, Germany, and I teach at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

    My main fields of interest are African and World Music, diaspora, trans-nationalism and migration, post-colonialism, the anthropology of globalization, West Africa and the Black Atlantic, etc.

    I taught at Universities of Hamburg, Berlin, Bayreuth and Southampton, UK. I also taught Anthropology and Ethnomusicology outside of academia, i.e. to teachers and students at secondary level. Furthermore, I organised concerts of African musicians and other cultural events. From 2007 to 2010 I worked on migration and integration policies in Germany as a research fellow in the EU-funded SEFONE consortium based at the University of Southampton. From 2004 to 2006 I was part of the German Research Council funded Junior Research Group on South-South relations at the University of Bayreuth, focusing on African students in Cuba. My research experiences include fieldwork in Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, South Africa, Mozambique, Cuba, the United States, France, Britain and Germany. I studied and obtained my M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology at University of Hamburg focusing on the African diaspora, migration, popular culture, performance and music.

    Publications include:

    2020 with Isabelle Jonveau and Katrin Langewiesche: La kora et l’imaginaire musical dans le monde et dans le cloître. In: Hermès – La revue. Autant de musique autant de mondes. No., 86, 203-207. 

    2019 Konzerte, Veranstaltungsreihen, Festivals. Erfahrungen mit Eventforschung. In: Gabriel Marie-Christin, Christopher Hohl and Carola Lentz (eds.) Eventforschung. Theoretische und methodische Herausforderungen, Working Papers of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 183. pp. 44-52

    2019 with Ibrahima Wane: Yéla, In: Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume XII: Genres: Sub-Saharan Africa. New York & London, Bloomsbury, pp. 558-561.

    2019 Yenyengo. In: Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume XII: Genres: Sub-Saharan Africa. New York & London, Bloomsbury, pp. 561-565.

    2018 Das Archiv für die Musik Afrikas. In: Hierholzer, Vera (ed.): Wertsachen. Die Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Göttingen: v&r Unipress, pp. 154-159.

    2017 Making Manding in the Concert Hall – Jali Pop in Paris. In: Journal of African Cultural Studies Vol. 29, 177-193.

    2017 Rumberos and Guerrilleros: Angélique Kidjo, Freddy Ilanga and African-Cuban Relations. In: Ute Röschenthaler & Alessandroo Jedlowski (Hrsg.): Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America, London: Zed Books, 277-297.

    2017 Westafrikanische Musik: Vom Preisgesang zum Pop In: Claus Leggewie & Erik Meyer (Hrsg.): Global Pop – Das Buch zur Weltmusik, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 299-306.

    2017 with Tom Simmert: Südafrikas Musik zwischen Popularität und Politisierung. In: Claus Leggewie & Erik Meyer (Hrsg.): Global Pop – Das Buch zur Weltmusik, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 323-331.

    2017 Musik als Provokation – Im Kampf für Namibias Unabhängigkeit widersetzten sich Künstler der kulturellen Apartheidlogik. In: M & R Magazin für Gegenkultur 2/17.

    2016 with Astrid Wonneberger and Mijal Trier, (Eds.): Migration, Networks, Skills – Anthropological Perspectives on Mobility and Transformation. Bielefeld: Transcript

    2013 Griots Navigating the Black Atlantic and Scholars Constructing the African Diaspora. In: Kokot, Waltraud; Christian Giordano und Mijal Gandelsmann-Trier (eds.): Diaspora as a Resource – Comparative Studies in Strategies, Networks and Urban Space. Zürich, Münster: Lit, 171-197.

    2012 Vom „Independance Cha Cha“ zu „Quitte Le Pouvoir“ – Afrikanische Popmusik seit der Unabhängigkeitsära“ In: Thomas Bierschenk und Eva Spies (Hrsg.): 50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit in Afrika – Kontinuitäten, Brüche, Perspektiven. Köln: Köppe, 501-523

    2012 „Hits im Sammeltaxi“. Südzeit, 55, 8-9.

    2012 „‘Music is The Weapon‘ Zur neuen Bedeutung von Musikern und der entstehenden Musikindustrie in Afrika“. http://www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de/de/fachthemen/gastkommentare/music-is-the-weapon/

    2011 with Ann-Kristin Iwersen (Eds.): EthnoScripts – „Musikethnologie“, 13. Jg., Heft 1.

    2010 „‘Indépendance Cha Cha’ – African Pop Music since the Independence Era”. In: Africa Spectrum 45, 3, 131-146. http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/380/378

    2009 with Tobias Wendl (Eds.): „Neue Nachbarschaften – Ein Fotoprojekt von Akinbode Akinbiyi und Bayreuther SchülerInnen“. Bayreuth, Bumerang Verlag.

    2006 Globale Griots – Performanz in der afrikanischen Diaspora. Hamburg, Münster: LIT Verlag.

    2000 Afrikanische Diaspora und ‚Black Atlantic’ – Einführung in Geschichte und aktuelle Diskussion. Hamburg, Münster: LIT Verlag.

    Contact:

    Dr. Hauke Dorsch
    Forum universitatis 6
    55099 Mainz
    Germany
    Tel.: 06131-39 23349
    Fax: 06131-39 23730
    E-Mail

    Research Project:

    The kora and emancipation in secular and liturgical music

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