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Benjamin Daniel Duester

Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Musicology
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany)

About	Benjamin Duester is a cultural sociologist interested the intersection of material culture, leisure and sustainability. He is an ERC-fellow at Georg August University Göttingen in the project Sound Knowledge: Alternative Epistemologies of Music in the Western Pacific Island World and is the author of Tomorrow on Cassette: Tape Jams in the New Media Age (Bloomsbury, 2025
Specialities	Urbanization, Urban, Urban Ethnography, Sustainability, Everyday Life, Rhythmanalysis
Discipline(s)	Musicology/Ethnomusicology
Geographic administrative areas	Marshall Islands Australia
Geographic places	Micronesia Australia (area)
Historical periods	21st century
Indigenous languages	Marshallese

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