Education:
Graduated from the Music Highschool (1978) and Music
Conservatory (Faculty of Music, Musical Composition,
and Musicology, 1984) in Cluj-Napoca. Definitive
Music Teacher License (1987); 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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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 Œn
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 Romƒnesc 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 Romania.
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