Biography

Speranța Rădulescu was born in 1949 in Buzău (Romania). She began her musical studies in Târgoviște, then moved to the capital city of Romania, Bucharest, where she studied music composition at the Conservatory (now the National University of Music), with professors Tudor Ciortea and Myriam Marbe. Between 1973-1990 she worked as an ethnomusicological researcher at the Institute of Ethnography and Folklore in Bucharest, during which time she obtained a doctorate from the Academy of Music in Cluj (1984). After 1990 she continued as a researcher at the Romanian Peasant Museum, while intensifying her field research in almost all the regions of Romania. Between 1988 and 2019 she organized dozens of traditional music concert tours in Switzerland, France, UK (Scotland), Italy, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Greece, Spain, Luxembourg. The participants were overwhelmingly peasant-musicians from various regions of Romania. Memorable concerts were held at La Fenice Theater, Venice (Italy, 1997 and 1998), Theatre de la Ville, Paris, France, La Villette Theater, and Maison des Cultures du Monde in Paris (1988-2019), the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Montreux Theater(1993), Palace of Music in Athens. In 2005 she began a collaboration with the National University of Music in Bucharest as an associate professor, an activity she still carries out at the doctoral school.

Memberships

Speranța Rădulescu is a member of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists/Uniunea compozitorilor și muzicologilor din România (UCMR), Société Française d’Ethnomusicologie (SFE), and International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM).

Awards

1984

Prize of the Romanian Academy

2005

Coup de coeur award of the Charles Cros Academy for the first ten CDs of the Ethnophonie collection

2007

Schallplatten Kritik 2007 award for the CD Aromânii din Andon Poci/Aromanians from Andon Poci, (five-language edition), co-authored with the Austrian scholar Thede Kahl

2020

Coup de coeur award of the Charles Cros Academy for Le taraf de Bucarest, produced by La Maison des Cultures du Monde, Paris.

Speranța Rădulescu was honored on Saturday, 28 May 2022, in the scientific symposium of the International Week of New Music. Bernard Lortat-Jacob, Laurent Aubert, Margaret Beissinger and other ethnomusicologists with whom she collaborated closely talked about how they interacted with her – as a researcher and as a friend –, about Speranța’s relationship with lăutari and her methodological approach.

Published works

Speranța Rădulescu authored or co-authored many studies, articles, books, LPs and CDs, a list of which can be read underneath.

She translated and published useful books for students interested in ethnomusicology.

She has published many studies and articles in collective volumes, some in Romania, others in various countries (France, Switzerland, Italy, UK, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova).

She has published numerous records of traditional music from Romania. Among the most notable are the collection of six LPs from the Document series (The Traditional Romanian Taraf, co-authored with Carmen Betea), the collection of CDs Ethnophonie (30 titles, with Costin Moisil and Florin Iordan), and 17 CDs with Romanian traditional music published in France, Switzerland, the USA and Germany.

She has delivered communications and conferences in various European countries, as well as in the USA, China and Senegal.

Speranța Rădulescu has had long-term collaborations with Laurent Aubert (Switzerland), Bernard Lortat-Jacob (France), Jacques Bouët (France), Margaret Beissinger (USA), Zuzana Jurkova (Czech Republic), Thede Kahl, Ardian Ahmedaja, Ulrich Morgenstern (Austria), Anca Giurchescu (Denmark-Romania), Costin Moisil, Florin Iordan, Steliana Mocanu și Adrian Solomon.

List of Publications

For the period 1973-1989, the list of works is selective (i.e. excludes some debut works, articles and lost radio broadcasts); for the period 1990-2013, the list is relatively incomplete (i.e. excludes lost articles, the cycle of radio shows “The World and Traditional Music”, consisting of about 30 shows of 40 minutes each, as well as numerous unpublished communications, delivered in Romania and other countries)

Books

1984

Taraful şi acompaniamentul armonic în muzica de joc (The Taraf and Harmonic Accompaniment in Peasant Dance Music). Bucharest, Editura Muzicală, 750 p.

1990

Cântecul liric. Tipologie muzicală. Vol. I: Transilvania meridională (The Lyrical Song. Musical Typology. Vol. I: Southern Transylvania). Bucharest, Editura Muzicală, 250 p.

1990

Vom muri şi vom fi liberi (We Will Die and We Will Be Free). Bucharest, Meridiane (co-author).

1992

Hopa, tropa, Europa. Bucharest, Muzeul Ţăranului, 43 p.

1997

Piaţa Universităţii (University Square). Bucharest, Nemira (co-author).

2001

Peisaje muzicale în România secolului XX. Partea I (Musical Landscapes In Twentieth-Century Romania. Part I). Bucharest, Muzeul Ţăranului, 52 p.

2002

Peisaje muzicale în România secolului XX (Musical Landscapes in Twentieth-Century Romania). Bucharest, Editura Muzicală, 190 p.

2002

À tue-tête. Chant et violon au Pays de l’Oach, Roumanie (with Jacques Bouët and Bernard Lortat-Jacob), Collection “Hommes et musiques”. Paris, Université Paris-Nanterre, 350 p.

2004

Taifasuri despre muzica ţigănească/Chats about Gypsy Music. Bucharest, Paideia, 250 p. (second edition 2016).

2016

Manele in Romania. Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Culture. New York-London, Rowman Littlefield, 2016.

2021

Regards sur la musique en Roumanie au XXe siecle. Paris, l’Harmattan.

À tue-tête. Chant et violon au Pays de l’Oach, Roumanie

Manele în România

Cintecul

Hopa tropa Europa

Taifasuri despre muzica ţigănească

Peisaje muzicale în România secolului XX. Partea I

Peisaje muzicale în România secolului XX

Regards sur la musique en Roumanie au XX^e siecle

Listening

Ethnomusicology books translated from French

2006

Din răsputeri. Glasuri şi cetere din Ţara Oaşului/À tue-tête. Chant et violon au Pays de l’Oach, co-authors Jacques Bouët and Bernard Lortat-Jacob. Bucharest, Institutul Cultural Român (originally published in France).

2007

Muzica celuilalt/La musique de l’autre, author Laurent Aubert (with Ema Geamănu). Ploieşti, Premier (originally published in Geneva, Ateliers d’ethnomusicologie, 2001).

2010

Indieni cântăreţi. Urechea etnologului/Indiens chanteurs. L’oreille de l’ethnologue, author Bernard Lortat-Jacob. Bucharest, Martor (originally published in 2009, Paris, Herman Editeurs, “Collection savoir cultures”).

2011

Memorie activă/Mémoire vive, Laurent Aubert editor. Bucharest, Martor (Originally published in 2009 by MEG – Musée d’ethnographie de Genève, collection Tabou).

Memorie activă

Muzica celuilalt

Din răsputeri. Glasuri şi cetere din Ţara Oaşului

Indieni cântăreţi. Urechea etnologului

As editor

1981

Centenarul George Enescu. 1881-1981 (The Centenary of George Enescu. 1881-1981). Bucharest, Editura Muzicală.

Entries in Dictionaries

1999

New Grove Dictionary. Entries: Romanian Peasant Music and Gypsy Music, 585 -594.

2008

[1984] Dicţionar de termeni muzicali (Dictionary of Musical Terms). Bucharest, Editura enciclopedică (50 entries).

2017

New Grove Dictionary. Entry: Oral Musics in Romania. (new online edition).

2017

Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11 (four entries).

Articles in collective books

1977

Armonia populară brăileană (Folk harmony in the region of Brăila). In Studii de etnografie şi folclor din zona Brăilei. Brăila, Centrul de îndrumare a creaţiei populare.

1981

Tehnica variaţiei şi dezvoltării motivice în cvartetele de coarde op. 22 (The technique of variation and motif development in string quartets op. 22). In Centenar George Enescu. 1881-1981, Speranţa Rădulescu (ed.) Bucharest, Editura Muzicală.

1981

Relaţii de determinare instituite la nivel formal între textele poetice şi cele muzicale ale ciclului de lieduri op. 15 “Sept chansons de Clement Marot” de George Enescu (Determining relations established at a formal level between the poetic texts and the musical texts of the lied cycle, op. 15 “Seven Songs by Clement Marot” by George Enescu). In Centenar George Enescu. 1881-1981, Speranţa Rădulescu (ed.) Bucharest, Editura Muzicală.

1981

Caracterul “popular” al operei enesciene (The “popular” character of enescu's work). In Memoriile secţiei de ştiinţe filozofice, literatură şi arte, seria IV, III/1981. Bucharest, (ed.) Academiei.

1981

Caracterul popular românesc al muzicii lui Enescu (The Romanian popular character of Enescu’s music). In Simpozion George Enescu. Bucharest, Editura Muzicală.

1981

Caractère spécifique roumain dans le langage harmonique de la IIIe Sonate pour piano et violon de Georges Enesco. In Enesciana II-III. Enesco, musicien complexe. Bucharest, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania, 75-94.

1981

La connotation “populaire” dans la “III-eme Sonate pour piano et violon” de Georges Enesco. In Enesciana II-III. Enesco, musicien complexe. Bucharest, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania, 95-102.

1985

Das Rumanische Volkslied. Formenreichtum und Einstimmigkeit. In Enesciana IV. Georges Enesco, compositeur roumain. Académie des sciences sociales et politiques de la République Socialiste de Roumanie, Centre d’etudes Georges Enesco. Bucharest, Editura Muzicală, 75-90.

1985

Le “taraf”: formation musicale de ménétriers. In Enesciana. IV. Georges Enesco, compositeur roumain. Académie des sciences sociales et politiques de la République Socialiste de Roumanie, Centre d’études Georges Enesco. Bucharest, Editura Muzicală, 91-104.

1986

Formaţii şi interpreţi de muzică populară în festivalul naţional Cântarea României (Folk music bands and performers in the national festival “Song to Romania”). In Cultura populară azi. Bucharest.

1989

Erscheinungsformen der Einstimmigkeit im Rumänischen Volkslied. In Volks- und Kunstmusik in Südosteuropa. Tutzing, 102-133.

1990

Traditional Music in Man-Oriented Cognitive Acts. Some Romanian cases. In VII. European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, pre-publication of the conference papers. Berlin, 351-362.

1997

Musiques traditionnelles et ethnomusicologie sous pression politique: le cas de la Roumanie. In Pom pom pom pom: musiques et caetera. Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel, 203 -242.

1997

Muzica Românească (Romanian Music) [in Greek]. In Si vullkan ne Ballkan (Like a volcano in the Balkans), Nikos Balkanos ed., Thessalonica, OM Center, 70-73.

1999

Traditions et instruments de musique de la Francophonie, Roumanie (with Costin Moisil). http:/www.rcip.gc.ca/instruments (Canada).

2000

Our Music vs The Music of Others. In Music, Language and Literature of the Roma and Sinti, Max Peter Baumann (ed). Bamberg, VWB, 293-308.

2003

What is Gypsy Music? On Belonging, Identification, Attribution, the Assumption of Attribution. In Romska Hudba na prelomu tisicileti/Romani Music at the turn of the Millennium, (ed.) Zuzana Jurkova. Prague, SUGA, 15-20 and 79-84.

2003

Anii 80 şi bucureştenii (The 1980s and the Bucharesters) (contributor). Bucharest, Paideia.

2005

Le musiche di traditione orale in Romania. In Quaderni del Premio Letterario Giuseppe Acerbi. Litteratura della Romania. Roma, Gabrielli Editori, 168-173.

2006

Parallel Comunities, Identities, and Musics: the Case of Roma and Gypsies from Gratia Village (Romania). In Shared Musics and Minority Identities, Naila Ceribasic and Erica Haskell (eds.). Zagreb, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, 31-45.

2006

Folcloristica muzicală şi timpul istoric (Musical folklore studies and historical time). In Folclorul şi contemporaneitatea. Conservarea, revitalizarea şi valorificarea culturii tradiţionale. Chişinău, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

2007

Estetica muzicală la plural. Câteva reflecţii grăbite (Musical aesthetics in the plural. A few hasty reflections). In Estetica muzicală. Un alt fel de manual. Bucharest, Editura Universităţii Naţionale de Muzică, 144-151.

2008

A Minority in a Multi-Ethnic Context: The Jews of the Region of Botoşani and Their Party Music (with Florin Iordan). In The Human World and Musical Diversity: Proceedings from the Fourth Meeting of the ICTM Study Group Music and Minorities in Varna, Bulgaria 2006, 262-268.

2009

Un repère durable: Constantin Brăiloiu (1983-1958). In Mémoire vive (sous la direction de Laurent Aubert), Collection Tabou, MEG (Musée d’ethnographie de Genève), 13-33.

2009

The Sonorous Image of the Gypsy in Post-romantic Academic Music. Two case studies. In Voices of the Week, Zuzana Jurkova and Lee Bidgood (eds.), Prague, 103-107.

2011

Music and Dance of Pan-Balkan and Mediterranean Fusion. The Case of the Romanian Manea (with Anca Giurchescu). In Proceedings of the Second Symposium by the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe, held in Izmir, Turkey, 7-11 April 2010, 42-52.

2012

Constantin Brailoiu (1893-1958), pionnier de l’ethnomusicologie moderne. In L’air du temps. Musiques populaires dans le monde. Genève, Editions Apogée/EPCC Chemins du patrimoine en Finistère, MEG, 90-99.

2013

Oriental Waves in Romanian Popular Music from Wallachia and Moldavia. In Sweet Sixties, Georg Schoellhammer and Ruben Arevshatyan (eds.), Sternberg Press, 416-428.

2014

Preserving Traditions as a Way of Rejecting a Social Order Perceived as Oppressive. In Third Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe, held in Berovo, Republic of Macedonia 17-23 April 2012, Elsie Ivancich Dunin, Liz Melish, Ivona Opetcheska-Tatarchevska (eds.). Skopje, Macedonia, Ministry of Culture.

2015

The Oșeni and the Dynamics of their Emblematic Music. In Urban People. Music and Crossing Bridges, Zuzana Jurkova (ed.) Prague, Charles University, 17/2015/2, 305- 316.

2016

Improvisation and one of its Motives: Comments on a Romanian case. In Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe: New Scopes of Research and Action. ICTM Study group on music and dance in Southeastern Europe, Liz Mellish, Nick Green and Mirjana Zakic (eds.). Belgrade, Faculty of Music, 69-73.

2016

Oral Musics in Contemporary Romania: a few particularities. In Von Hora, Doina and Lautaren. Einblicke in die rumänische Musik und Wissenschaft, Thede Kahl (ed.), Frank & Timme.

2017

“I hear the drum, but I cannot see it!”. In European Voices III. The Instrumentation and Instrumentalization of Sound. Local Multipart Music Practices in Europe. Wien-Köln-Weimar, Böhlau Verlag, 237-248.

2019

Manuscrisul muzical nr. 2575 din Biblioteca Academiei Române din București (Musical manuscript no. 2575 from the Library of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest) (Ro, Eng.). In Muzici ale saloanelor din Principatele Române în prima jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea. Bucharest, Editura Universității Naționale de Muzică, VII-XIX.

2020

The Gypsy Musicians of Romania: The Past and the Timeless Universe that Takes Its Place. In Music – Memory – Minorities: Between Archive and Activism, Zuzana Jurkova, Veronika Seidlova (eds.). Prague, Charles University Karolinum Press, 21-35.

2020

Folklore in the Communist Period and its Later Extensions. In Music in Post-socialism. Three Decades in Retrospect, Billiana Milanovici, Melita Milin, Danka Mihajlovici (eds.). Belgrade, Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 245-272.

2020

Prefacerea muzicilor orale de-a lungul secolului XX (The transformation of oral musics throughout the twentieth century). In Noi istorii ale muzicilor românești, Valentina Sandu Dediu & Nicolae Gheorghiță (eds.), Bucharest, Editura muzicală, 171 -218.

Playing Multipart Music

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Sweet Sixties

Sweet Sixties - verso

Articles in journals

Dialogue, Montpellier, France

1984

Musique d’ensemble: le taraf traditionnel. Jacques Bouët (ed.). Université Montpellier III.

Revista de etnografie şi folclor (REF), România

1977

Analiza unui text muzical lăutăresc (Analysis of a lăutăresc musical text), tom 22, 1.

1979

Operaţii de gândire implicate în transcrierea textului muzical de tradiţie orală (Thought operations involved in transcribing musical texts of oral tradition), tom 24, 2.

1983

Forme de manifestare a univocalităţii în folclorul muzical românesc (Forms of manifestation of univocality in Romanian musical folklore), tom 28, 1.

1984

Istoria tarafului sătesc trăită şi comentată de lăutarii înşişi (The history of the village taraf lived and commented on by the lăutari themselves), tom 29, 2.

1985

Ucenicia lăutarului (The apprenticeship of a lăutar), tom 30, 2.

1986

Plurispecializarea lăutarului (The multi-specialization of the lăutar), tom 31, 1.

Anuarul ICED, România

1979

Taraful de concert şi problemele spectacolului de folclor (The concert taraf and the issues of the folklore show), seria A, no. 1.

1981

Creaţia enesciană în prelungirea unor straturi vechi de muzică populară (Enescu's creation as an extension of old layers of popular music), seria A, no. 2.

1987

Sistemul muzicii folclorice în actualitate (The folklore music system today), seria A.

1987

Relaţia text-muzică în cântecul contemporan (The text-music relationship in contemporary song), seria A.

Muzica, România

1978

Lectura psiho-semiotică a mesajului muzical (Psycho-semiotic reading of the musical message), no. 11, 11-13.

1980

Festival “Maria Tănase” (coauthor), no. 7, 20-22.

1980

Ansamblul (vocal-)instrumental folcloric românesc. Schiţă tipologică (The Romanian folkloric [vocal-]instrumental ensemble. A typological sketch), no. 10-11.

1981

Elemente de provenienţă folclorică în muzica enesciană (Elements of folk origin in Enescu's music), no. 9, 17-24.

1981

Despre autenticitatea folclorului difuzat prin mijloacele comunicării de masă (About the authenticity of folklore broadcast through the media), no. 10-11/1981, 3-5.

1985

Prelegeri despre folclorul muzical românesc în Marea Britanie (Lectures on Romanian musical folklore in Great Britain), no. 3.

1985

Difuzarea folclorului prin mijloacele comunicării de masă (Dissemination of folklore through the media), no. 2, 10-15.

1986

Opinii despre “poluarea” muzicii noastre populare (Opinions about the “pollution” of our folk music), no. 12.

1988

Săptămânile muzicii populare româneşti la Geneva şi Paris (Romanian folk music weeks in Geneva and Paris), no. 8, 37.

1989

Tendinţe în evoluţia muzicii noastre folclorice (Trends in the evolution of our folk music), no. 6, 5-7.

1990

Acordajul viorii în Ţara Oaşului (The tuning of the violin in Ţara Oaşului) (with Felicia Diculescu), no. 3.

1995

Tiberiu Alexandru, no. 2.

1995

Consecinţele în planul muzicii tradiţionale ale prefacerilor politice în curs (Consequences of ongoing political transformations on traditional music), no. 2.

1997

The traditional music’s evolution, no. 4, 143-147.

1998

Musique de métissage pan-balkanique en Roumanie, no. 4.

1999

OPUS I , tom 37, no. 1.

1999

Trioul instrumental “Drum”, taraful din Gherla şi Fanfara din Zece Prăjini (The instrumental trio “Drum”, the taraf from Gherla and the brass band from Zece Prăjini), no. 3, 146-150.

2010

O minoritate într-un context plurietnic: evreii din ţinutul Botoşani şi muzica lor de petrecere (A minority in a multi-ethnic context: the Jews of Botosani and their party music) (with Florin Iordan), no. 3, 54-70.

2011

Un savant european al etnomuzicologiei (A European scholar of ethnomusicology), no. 1, 98-101.

Etudes Tsiganes, France

2010

Les manele, symbole de la “décadence”, numéro 38. Paris, 172-177.

Yearbook for Traditional Music (ICTM)

2011

Pan-Balkan and Euro-American Fusion Music and Dance. The Case of the Romanian Manea (with Anca Giurchescu).Vol. XLIII, 1-36.

Revista Timp liber

1990

Să învăţăm adevărul (Let us learn the truth), no. 1.

Revista Actualitatea muzicală

1996

O serie de șase articole despre muzica tradițională, folclorică și hibridă și alte câteva articole (probabil pierdute) și recenzii de concerte

Revista Rosturi

1992

Muzica ţărănească. Schiţă de portret (Peasant music. A sketch portrait), no. 2.

1993

Festivalul piciorului (The foot festival), nos. 3-4.

Revista Transilvania, România

1996

Ţăranii şi politica (Peasants and politics)

Revista România Literară, România

1997

Copiii noştri – caricaturile noastre (Our children – our caricatures).

1998

Muzica folclorică – blazonul nostru naţional (Folkloric music – our national coat of arms), November issue.

2000

Jurnal de călătorie prin Balcani (Travel diary through the Balkans), January issue.

2001

De ce “înainte era mai bine” (Why “it was better before”), no. 6.

2001

O poveste cu trei arbori (A story with three trees), November issue.

2003

Taifas cu lăutarii ţigani (Chat with Gypsy lăutari).

2004

Dama cu contrabasul (The lady with the double bass), no. 1.

2005

Muzica folclorică – instrument de îndoctrinare şi propagandă al puterii comuniste (Folkloric music – an instrument of indoctrination and propaganda of communist power).

2005

Tradiţie şi modernitate (Tradition and modernity), no. 51-52.

2008

Despre o creaţie academică orală cu autor multiplu: O vară fierbinte pe Iza (About an oral academic creation with multiple authors: A hot summer on the Iza), February issue.

2010

Europolis, un basm cinematografic pentru oameni în toată firea (Europolis, a cinematographic fairy tale for grownups), no. 46.

Revue Roumaine d’Histoire de l’Art (RRHA), Romania

1976

Clemansa Liliana Firca, Direcţii în muzica românească, 1900-1930 (Clemansa Liliana Firca, Directions in Romanian music, 1900-1930). Compte rendu, tome XIII, 151-163.

1977

La lecture psycho-sémiotique du message musical, tome XIV.

1977

Quelques considérations sur la communication artistique musicale de la perspective du système sémiologique de Luis Prieto, tome XVI.

1981

Considérations critiques sur le spectacle de folklore contemporain (with Irina Nicolau), tome XVIII, 97-100.

1990

Traditional Music in Man-Oriented Cognitive Acts. Some Romanian Cases, tome XXVII, 41-48.

1994

Consequences of the Political Changes in Romanian Peasant Music, tome XXXI.

Studii şi Cercetări de Istoria Artei review (SCIA), România

1985

Microstructuri melodice subordonate principiului sonată în suita “Impresii din copilărie” de George Enescu (Melodic microstructures subordinated to the sonata principle in the suite “Impressions from childhood” by George Enescu), tome 32, 66-69.

Memoriile secţiei de ştiinţe filologie, literatură şi arte, România

1981

“Caracterul popular românesc” al operei enesciene (“The Romanian popular character” of Enescu's works), seria IV, tom III, 159-162.

Revista Secolul 20/Secolul 21, România

1984

Colecţia Universală a Muzicii Populare Înregistrate (Universal Collection of Recorded Folk Music), no. 310-312.

1984

Samuel Baud-Bovy, no. 310-312.

1996

Muzici de metisaj pan-balcanic: Balcanismul (Pan-Balkan hybridization music: Balkanism), no. 7-9.

2002

Satul Zece Prăjini faţă în faţă cu problema identităţii (The village of Zece Prăjini facing the issue of identity), no. 1-7, 419-423.

2007

Kulturfabrik. Impresii dezordonate (Kulturfabrik. Jumbled impressions), no. 7-12.

Ethnologie Française, France

1995

La musique paysanne roumaine. Sythématisation ethnomusicologique et taxinomie populaire, XXV, 3. Romania. Construction d’une nation, 449-461.

L’Homme, France

1996

Musique en fête. Maroc, Sardaigne, Roumanie. Compte rendu pour le volume de B. Lortat-Jacob. L’Homme, 138, 174-177.

Anthropology Today, UK

1997

Traditional Musics and Ethnomusicology under Political Pressure: the Romanian Case, vol. 13, no. 6, December 1997, London, 8-12.

Caiete de etnomuzicologie - Cahiers de musique traditionnelle/Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie, Genève, Switzerland

1988

L'apprentissage du lăutar roumain, 1, 87-99.

1993

L’accompagnement harmonique dans la musique paysanne roumaine, 6, 55-69.

1996

Bernard Lortat-Jacob: Musiques en fête. Maroc, Sardaigne, Roumanie. Compte rendu, 9, 322-325.

1998

Le récit chanté: portrait de haïdouk, Jacques Bouët ed., Compte rendu du numéro, 11, 287-289.

2000

Musiques de métissage en Roumanie, 13, 151-162.

2006

Mémoire tsigane, compte rendu, 19, 292-294.

2009

Fabricants d’émotion. Musique et malice dans un village tsigane de Roumanie. Compte rendu du volume de Victor Alexandre Stoichita, 22, 273-275.

Întâlnirile est-europene de etnomuzicologie - East-European Meetings in Ethnomusicology, România

1996

Fiddlers’ Contracts and Payments, 3, 76-88.

1999

The Peasant Brass Band in Romania, 6, 61-68.

New Europe College Yearbook, 1997-1998, Romania

1998

Le Danţ de l’Oaş: Structure musicale et insertion sociale, 309-368.

Lumea liberă, Canada

1996

Ţăranii şi politica (Peasants and politics), 1996.

Revista Martor, Muzeul Țăranului Român, Romania

1996

Gypsy Music vs. Music of the Others.

1998

Constantin Brăiloiu et l’ethnomusicologie d’aujourd’hui.

1998

Le fond “Constantin Brăiloiu” dans la bibliothèque du Musée de l’Homme.

2001

Pan-Balkanic Waves in Romanian Oral Music, 6, 133-143.

2001

Musician Gică Diricel: His Music and Estrangement, 6, 261-264.

2002

Four narratives on life under the communist regime, no. 7.

Tarom airlines review, Romania

2001

Muzica românilor (Music of the Romanians), 66-69.

Plural. Culture and Civilization, Romania

2003

Our love for our neighbor, 4, 12-14.

Podibil, Ukraina

1995

Consequences of the Political Changes in Romanian Peasant Music ( re-edited in Ukrainian), 2 (II), 23-26.

Revista 22

2002

Colectivizarea la Dobroteşti (Collectivization at Dobroteşti).

Revista Dilema

2004

Bizar (Bizarre).

2005

Balta liniştii rău prevestitoare (The pool of ominous silence).

2008

Câteva articole despre manele și alte subiecte.

2013

In memoriam Clemansa Liliana Firca.
Noile “popular music” din Balcani (The new “popular music” from the Balkans).

Musicology Today, Musicology Journal of the National University of Music, Bucharest, Romania

2010

Les musiciens d’aujourd’hui face aux musiques de tradition orale, no. 1, Bucharest, UNMB, online: http://www.musicologytoday.ro/studies.php

2017

National Ideology, Music and Discourses about Music in Romania in the Twentieth Century, 29-32, 181-196.

Revista Acord

2010

Maneaua în dezbaterile publice româneşti privitoare la tranziţie, democraţie, minoritatea romă şi reconstrucţia identităţii naţionale (The manea in the Romanian public debates regarding the transition, democracy, the Roma minority and the reconstruction of the national identity), October.

ARTA

2016

Peisaje sonore (Soundscapes), no. 18, 12-14.

2016

More articles were published in various other Romanian magazines such as: Formula As, Actualitatea românească, Timp Liber, Rosturi, etc.

Radio broadcasts

Bucharest Radio

1973-2011

Over 100 shows, mostly dedicated to traditional oral musics from Romania.

2008-2012

“The world and traditional music” monthly show (approx. 40 shows of 30-40 minutes each).

Scientific discography

Recordings of Romanian traditional music, accompanied by extensive explanatory texts/liner notes in English and/or French, Romanian.

1982-1984

six LPs in the “Document” series (with Carmen Betea):

I. Oltenia;
II. Bucovina;
III. Bihor-Arad;
IV Vlaşca-Ilfov and Teleorman;
V. Câmpia Transilvaniei;
VI. Maramureş-Oaş.

Oltenia

Bucovina

Bihor-Arad

Vlaşca-Ilfov și Teleorman

Câmpia Transilvaniei

Maramureş-Oaş

2000-2020

30 CDs in the “Ethnophonie” series (with Costin Moisil and/or Florin Iordan). Producers: Al. Tzigara Samurcaş Foundation and the Romanian Peasant Museum, Bucharest, Romania. CLICK HERE to buy the CDs from the CĂRTUREȘTI bookstore.

001 Sfârşit de mileniu în satul românesc/The End of the Millennium in the Romanian Village/ Fin de millénaire dans le village roumain (Rom., Eng., Fr.).
002 Peasant Brass Bands from Moldavia: Zece Prăjini/Fanfares paysannes de Moldavie: Zece Prăjini (Eng., Fr.).
003 Outlaws of Yore/Les “Haidouks” d'autrefois (I) (Eng., Fr.).
004 Outlaws of Yore/Les “Haidouks” d'autrefois (II) (Eng., Fr.).
005 Romanian and Hungarian Music from Central Transylvania/Musique roumaine et magyare de Transylvanie centrale (Eng., Fr.).
006 Romanian, Ukrainian and Jewish Music from Maramures/Musiques roumaine, ukrainienne et juive de Maramures (Eng., Fr.).
007 Muzică ţigănească din Transilvania/Gypsy Music from Transylvania (Rom., Eng.).
008 Romi şi ţigani din satul Gratia, Teleorman/Roma and Gypsies from the Village of Gratia, Teleorman (Rom., Eng.).
009 Muzică veche din Moldova de Sus/Old Music from North Moldavia (Rom., Eng.).
010 Gloria târzie a lăutarilor din Naipu/The Late Glory of the Musicians from Naipu (Rom., Eng.).
011 Muzică de ceatarâşi din Chioar şi Codru/Fiddle Music from Chioar and Codru (Rom., Eng.).
012 Aromânii din Andon Poci, Albania. Cântări şi povestiri/Aromanians from Andon Poci. Songs and Stories (CD with a booklet in five languages: Aromanian, English, Albanian, Greek, Romanian, 140 p.).
013 Fanfare ţărăneşti din Moldova/Peasant Brass Bands from Moldavia: Vorona (Rom., Eng.).
014 Muzici de sărbătoare ale evreilor din ţinutul Botoşani/Festive Musics of the Jews from Botoşani Region (Rom., Eng.).
015 Cântările lui Vasile Soporan din satul Frata/The Songs of Vasile Soporan from the village of Frata (Rom., Eng.).
016 Cântările lăutăreşti ale lui Andrei Mihalache/The Songs of Andrei Mihalache (Rom., Eng.).
017 Fanfara din Lăpuşnicu Mare/The Brass Band from Lăpuşnicu Mare (Rom., Eng.).
018 Muzică de taraf din Gorj /Taraf Music from Gorj (Rom., Eng.).
019 Muzică lăutărească cu taraful Vasile Năsturică/Lăutărească music with Vasile Nasturică’s ensemble (Rom., Eng.).
020 Muzică de joc din Chioarul de altădată/Dance Music from Old-Time Chioar (Rom., Eng.).
021-022 Tarafuri şi lăutari din Gorj/Folk Musicians and Ensembles from Gorj County, I-II (Rom., Eng.).
023 Dansuri ţărăneşti din ţinutul Gherla/Peasant Dances from the Region of Gherla (Rom., Eng.).
024 Glasuri şi cetere din Oaş/Voices and Fiddles from Oaş (Rom., Eng.).
025 Instrumente neobişnuite din Transilvania/Unusual Instruments from Transylvania (Rom., Eng).
026 Cântările bătrânești ale lui Gică Diricel/Gică Diricel’s Old Songs (Rom., Eng.).
027 Trei generații de muzicanți din Căstău, Hunedoara/Three Generations of Musicians from Căstău, Hunedoara (Rom., Eng.).
029 Ultimele cântece bătrânești din Olt/Last Old Songs from Olt (Rom., Eng.).
030 Muzică românească, maghiară și țigănească/Romanian, Hungarian and Gypsy Music from Transylvania (Rom., Eng.).

The first 10 CDs of the Ethnophonie series received the price Coup de Coeur. Musique du monde of the French Charles Cros Academy in 2006. CD 012 was awarded the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in 2007.

Sfârşit de mileniu în satul românesc

Peasant Brass Bands from Moldavia: Zece Prăjini

Outlaws of Yore I

Outlaws of Yore II

Romanian and Hungarian Music from Central Transylvania

Romanian, Ukrainian and Jewish Music from Maramures

Muzică ţigănească din Transilvania

Romi şi ţigani din satul Gratia, Teleorman

Muzică veche din Moldova de Sus

Gloria târzie a lăutarilor din Naipu

Muzică de ceatarâşi din Chioar şi Codru

Aromânii din Andon Poci, Albania. Cântări şi povestiri

Fanfare ţărăneşti din Moldova

Muzici de sărbătoare ale evreilor din ţinutul Botoşani

Cântările lui Vasile Soporan din satul Frata

Cântările lăutăreşti ale lui Andrei Mihalache

Fanfara din Lăpuşnicu Mare

Muzică de taraf din Gorj

Muzică lăutărească cu taraful Vasile Năsturică

Muzică de joc din Chioarul de altădată

Tarafuri şi lăutari din Gorj

Dansuri ţărăneşti din ţinutul Gherla

Glasuri şi cetere din Oaş

Instrumente neobişnuite din Transilvania

Cântările bătrânești ale lui Gică Diricel

Trei generații de muzicanți din Căstău, Hunedoara

Ultimele cântece bătrânești din Olt

Muzică românească, maghiară și țigănească

CD published by Electrecord company

2004

Sherban Lupu şi virtuozii populari din România (Sherban Lupu and the Peasant Virtuosos of Romania) (ed.). Electrecord: ECD 568.

CDs published abroad

1988

(3 CD): Roumanie: musique de villages. Olténie – Moldavie – Transylvanie/Village Music from Romania : Oltenia – Moldavia – Transylvania. (Pachet de 3 discuri compacte). AIMP Genève, VDE Gallo, CD-537/539 (cu Laurent Aubert).

1988

Musique des Tsiganes de Valachie: les lăutari de Clejani (with Laurent Aubert). Paris, France.

1992

Musique pour cordes de Transylvanie (with Bernard Lortat-Jacob & Jacques Bouet, France). Paris, France.

1993

Quatuor à cordes de Transylvanie. Paris, France.

1995

Musique de noces de Valachie. Paris, France.

1995

Romanian Gypsy Music. North Carolina, Music of the World.

1996

On the Edge of the Forest. North Carolina, Music of the World.

1996

Roumanie: La fanfare de Zece Prăjini. Paris, France.

1996

Roumanie: Les faubourgs d’antan. Paris, France.

1997

Roumanie: Noël en Maramurech. Paris, France.

1999

Authentic Romania. Munich, Sonoton.

2001

World Library of Folk & Primitive Music, compiled and edited by Alan Lomax, volume XVII: Romania. New edition on CD with a new introduction by Speranța Rădulescu, with Anna Lomax-Chairetakis. Rounder 11661-1759-2.

2009

Musique festive de la région du Gorj. Genève, VDE Gallo.

2013

Romania: Festive Music from the Maramures Region. Smithsonian Folkways, UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music, USA, UNES 08310.

2020

Roumanie. Taraful Bucurestilor. La musique des lăutares tsiganes de Bucarest/The Music of the Gypsy Lăutari of Bucharest. Paris, collection INEDIT de La maison des cultures du monde, INEDIT W 260154 (Prix Coup de cœur de l’Académie Charles Cros, 2020).

Roumanie: Musique des villages MOLDAVIE

Roumanie: Musique des villages TRANSYLVANIE

Roumanie: Musique des villages OLTENIE

Fanfare paysanne de Zece Prăjini

Roumanie: Quatuor a cordes de Transylvanie

Les faubourgs d'antan

Iza: Noël en Maramureș

Taraf - Romanian Gypsy Music

The Edge of the Forest

Les Lăutari de Clejani

SONOTON Authentic Series

Musique de Noces en Valachie

Musique pour cordes de Transylvanie

Taraful Bucureștilor

Musiques festives du Gorj

Folk and Primitive Music

Festive Music from the Maramureș Region

The Traditional Folk Music Band

“Ethnophonie” tapes (1992-2005, Romania)

001 Lăutarii din Clejani I/Music for String Ensembles: The Folk Musicians of Clejani.
002 Glasuri ţărăneşti/Peasant Voices (Rom., Eng.).
003 Mahalaua de altădată/Les faubourgs d'antan (Rom., Fr.).
004 Hori şi zicăli moroşeneşti/Songs and Dances from Maramureş County (Rom., Eng.)
005 Slujba de seară/The Vespers (Rom., Eng.).
006 Fanfara din Zece Prăjini/The Wind Band of Zece Prăjini (Rom., Eng.).
007 Ceatarẩşi din Codru (Maramureş)/Musiciens paysans de Codru (Maramureş).
008 Cântări de nuntă de pe Vlaşca şi Teleorman/Musique de noces de Vlaşca et de Teleorman.
009 Crăciun în Maramureş/Christmas in Maramureş.
010 Muzică din ţinutul Gherla/Music from the Region of Gherla.
011 Petrecere cu lăutari (I)/Fêtes et réjouissances en musique.
012 Petrecere cu lăutari (II)/Romanian Gypsy Music.
013 Petrecere cu lăutari (III)/Wedding Music from Wallachia.
014 Cântările lui Soporan Vasile din satul Frata/Les chants de Soporan Vasile du village de Frata.
015 Muzică românească, ucraineană şi evreiască din Maramureş/Romanian Ukrainian, and Jewish Music from Maramureş (CD, cassette).
016 Muzică din Chioar şi Codru/Music from Chioar and Codru.
017 Haiducii de altădată.
018 Sfârşit de mileniu în satul românesc/The End of the Millennium in the Romanian Village/Fin de millénaire dans le village roumain (CD, cassette).
019 Doine, cântece şi jocuri din Banat cu fanfara din Lăpuşnicu/Lyric Songs and Dances with the Brass Band of Lăpușnicu.
020 Muzică veche din Moldova de sus.
021 Cântări bătrâne de pe Olt.
022 Muzică românească şi maghiară din Transilvania centrală (CD, cassette).
023 Muzică ţigănească din Transilvania/Gypsy music from Transylvania (Rom., Eng.).