Monika Stern
Researcher
CNRS
Centre de recherche et de documentation sur l'Oceanie
India
Biography
ebruary 2000-February 2001 One-year stay in Vanuatu to carry out an ethnomusicological study for the doctoral thesis. Several stays on the island of Pentecost. In Port-Vila (the capital) work at the Cultural Center of Vanuatu to the sound archives (development of a computer catalog). Stay funded by the Bourse Lavoisier of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Research Interest
Vanuatu, rural music, urban music, the circulation of music, the property rights of oral knowledge, borrowing and reappropriation, identity reconstruction through music, field issues, music and politics.
