L’Oreille paysanne de Speranța
Speranța’s Peasant Ear

Summary/Abstract: This article tracks down Speranța’s still-vibrant words, her favourite expressions, her aesthetic choices as well as her epistemological options as an ethnomusicologist. What were the foundations of her personal ethnomusicology? What made them original and at the same time anchored in the scientific panorama of the late 2000s? Having had the chance (like others, no doubt) to work very closely with her, and in absolute confidence, I will try to understand what constituted the main object of her studies, even if, de facto, the theoretical bases of our great friend were rarely explicit in and of themselves; a praxis replaced them, nourished by a very beautiful intuition. However, her words, which I endeavour to reinterpret, remain in the ears of all those who knew and loved her. Everyone knows that she worked on peasant musics (in the geographical sense of the term). But this object of investigation is actually quite vast and not very well defined. There is in Speranța’s work an intuitive reading grid – which the following lines will try to uncover – that mobilized her energy and constitutes the logic of her publications.

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