Education:
Graduated from the Music Highschool (1978) and Music Conservatory
(Faculty
of Music, Musical Composition, and Musicology, 1984) in Cluj-Napoca.
Doctor of Philosophy (degree obtained in 1994, from the University
of Bucharest, Faculty of Philosophy,
specialization: Aesthetics).
Pluridisciplinary specialization
in India
(1994-1995), where the main study and research theme focused
on relationships between performing arts and religious experience
(affiliation to the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the
Arts (New Delhi).
Fulbright Fellow (2001-2002, affiliated
to the University of Chicago, USA).
Postdoctoral research, fieldwork and documentation sojourns also
in Hungary, China, Iran, Finland, England, USA.
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Activity:
CAREER:
Since stundenship: Music performer, composer, actor and play
director with the "Students' House" in Cluj (1980-1984). Journalist
and editor on a wide range of music and musicological-related
topics. Member of the editorial board of the cultural magazine "Echinox" (Cluj).
Music teacher (1984-1987), as well as free-lance jurnalist,
collaborator for numerous cultural magazines in Romania, and
also folklorist and ethnomusicologist. Since 1987: permanent
member of the editorial board of the academic journal "Revista
de
Etnografie si Folclor" [Review for Ethnography and Folklore].
Panelist, discussant, and organizer and coordinator of numerous
workshops and round tables. Collaborator to several Radio, cultural
programs (1987-1989, 1998-2001). Since 1990, scientific research
worker, head of the ethnomusicological department (1993-), founder
and editor of the international journal "European Meetings in
Ethnomusicology" (a yearbook in English) (1993-), founder
and vice-president of the "Romanian Society for Ethnomusicology" (1995-)
and of the National Committee of the ICTM (International Council
for Traditional Music - New York) (1998-). Senior researcher.
Research and editing programs coordinator (1993-). Organizer
of national symposia (1989-), organizer of international meetings
(1999-). Conferences and papers delivered within academic, national
and international gatherings.
Scientific advisor to various cultural, scholarly, and media
programs.
Occasional lectures at various Universities (abroad included).
Field work and documentary work done in Romania (rural and urban
areas), India, China, Scandinavian countries, Greece, Turkey,
Iran, UK, USA.
AREA OF EXPERTISE
:
Musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology,
ethnology, religion, philosophy.
Folk music in Romania and Eastern Europe; nationalism and colonialism,
racism and politics; history of scholarly
methods and ideologies; performing
and visual arts and the religious
experience (worldwide); psychoanalytical
approach
PUBLICATIONS :
Books:
Pasarea Maiastra. Sensul creator al
existentei umane ca revelatie a
folclorului [The Magic Bird. On the Creative Sense of Human
Existence as a
Revelation of the Folklore], Bucharest, Minerva Pbl. House,
1991; Chipul
geniului. Eseu despre creativitatea exemplara [The Genius'
Image. Essay on
the Exemplary Creativity], Bucharest, Muzica Pbl.
House, 1991; Mitologia oului [Mythology of the Egg], Bucharest,
Minerva Pbl.
House, 1992; Oedip, sau despre sensul eroic al existentei On
drama [Oedip,
or On the Heroic Meaning of Existing in Drama], Bucharest,
Minerva Pbl.
House, 1995; Zorile din crepuscul [Dawns in Twilight], Bucharest,
Herald
Pbl. House, 1999; Colinda, epifanie si sacrament [Winter-Solstice-Song,
Epiphany and Sacrament] Bucharest: Minerva Pbl.House, 2000;
Galeria cu
revelatii [Gallery of Revelations], Bucharest: Viitorul Romanesc
Pbl.
House,
2001. Ten manuscript volumes (from fiction to documentary
reports, cultural
and philosophical essays, ethnological studies, musicological
works, art
criticism). Over 200 scholarly essays and articles published
in main cultural and academic journals in omania and abroad.
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