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Music (from Latin America and Spain/ Germany)
Latin America/ Spain/ Cuba/ Catalonia (culture, politics and society)
Internet (tecnology and society)

About this topics I publish articles and reviews in newspapers, magazines, TV- and radioprograms and on websites. Inside these topics I’m very interested in minority language politics, minorities, youth politics, german minorities in Latin America, and in jazz, (independent)rock and electronic music.

Work in progress:

Article: German musicians in Latin America
Article: Latinamericans in Germany


In English:

Barcelona: Jazz magnet (miniguide* Barcelona 13/ 2006)

Conference:
Exclude, accuse, absorb! Cultural policy-strategies of the Cuban government against rock music, hiphop and reggaeton (Conference, University of Straßburg, 8.6.2013)



Some works (titels translated):

TV: “Cuba – the cradle of latin jazz” (WDR Documentary 90 min.; f.e. presented in the year 2000 at the competition of foreign videos about Latin America at the 22. “Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano” in Havana)

„Jazzpaña II – A portrait“ (Documentary 15 min., WDR 2001)

Radio: „The history of electroacustic music in Latin America“ (Serie of six parts for radio WDR3/ Studio Elektronische Musik; 06/ 2005)

Books and articles:

The Tramontana: no serial number (COSTA:LIVE Magazin 05/ 2006)

„Telecommunication and internet in Chile“, in: Peter Imbusch/Dirk Messner/Detlef Nolte (Hrsg.). Chile heute, Frankfurt a.M. 2004, S. 757-772.

„Music markets and industry in Latin America“ (Matices Nr. 28/ 2000)

„Narco-música and Tecnogeist. Mexican music since the XX century until today“,
in: Walther L. Bernecker/ Klaus Zimmermann u.a. (Hrsg.). Mexiko heute, Frankfurt a.M. 2004, S. 563-606

„Music and culture in times of internet and globalisation“, in: Torsten Eßer, music-and-sound.de - Musik im Internet, Papyrossa-Verlag, Köln 2000, S. 14-24

"The myth of the communication revolution: Internet in Latin America“ (Entwicklungspolitik Online 2/ 2000)






© Torsten Eßer

 
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