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what am i doing now?

i am currently in mannheim (germany) working full-time and focusing on the following projects & activities (last updated: 28.11.2023):

projects
i have very limited resources for other projects.

a student and i at the popakademie electronic music day 2015 (pic: alexander münch)
a student and i at the popakademie electronic music day 2015
(pic: alexander münch)

current research & teaching projects

  • music and extremism
  • post-soviet popular music in belarus
  • VIAs and their legacy
  • songs of war in ukraine
  • what is world music
  • history of film music
  • introduction to popular music studies
  • musics of the world
  • popular music history survey
  • academic writing

current publication projects

  • co-edited book on power relations within higher music education – editing stage
  • article on songs of war – writing stage
  • encyclopedia entry on popular music in belarus – writing stage

personal projects

  • trumpet
  • teaching myself 5-string banjo
  • photography (and some dark room dabbling)
  • fishing
  • cooking

(page inspired by sivers.org/nowff and chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/the-now-page-movement/61412)