Vincenzo Della Ratta

FORMATION & PARCOURS PROFESSIONNEL

• 2015 – Doctorat en « Histoire et analyse des cultures musicales » (« Storia e analisi delle culture musicali »). Thèse intitulée « Le peuple des tambours de bronze. La culture de Dong Son chez les Jarai des Hauts-Plateaux Centraux du Vietnam », sous la direction du Prof. Giovanni Giuriati, Université de Rome ‘La Sapienza’.
• 2008 – Master II en Ethnomusicologie,cum laude. Thèse intitulée « Entre la tradition et la modernité. Introduction à la musique des Jarai, Hauts Plateaux Centraux du Vietnam », sous la direction du Prof. Giovanni Giuriati, Université de Rome ‘La Sapienza’.
• 2005 – Master I en Esthétique de la musique. Thèse intitulée « L’esthétique de Th. W. Adorno et le free-jazz »sous la direction du Prof. Giampiero Moretti,Université de Rome ‘La Sapienza’.

DOMAINES DE RECHERCHE

• Musique de gongs
• Musique et rituel funéraires
• Musique des sociétés austronésiennes 

BIBLIOGRAPHIE SELECTIVE

Articles

• (à paraître) - “The Space of Gong Culture in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The Ede village of Buon Ako Dhong. A case study”. Equinox Studies in Ethnomusicology,ed. S. Krüger et B. Sweers.
• 2016 – “Celebration of DeathReaffirmation of Life. An analysis of the Dong Son bronze drums in relation to the secondary mortuary ritual of the Jarai people of Central Vietnam”.Papers from the 9th Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology at the Ethnological Museum, State Museums Berlin, 09 – 12 September, 2014, ed. by R. Eichmann, L.-C. Kochand F. Jianjun.Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – Orient-Abteilung, Berlin.  
• 2015 – “Some musical aspects of the Kwangkay ritual of the Dayak Benuaq (East Kalimantan, Indonesia)”. Borneo Research Bulletin, vol. 46. 
• 2010 – “Le orchestre di gong dei Jarai fra tradizione e modernità: un esempio”. Quaderni Vietnamiti, Turin, Italie.

CD et archives musicales

• 2016 – “Kwangkay : Funeral music of the Dayak Benuaq of Borneo”. LP, Enregistrement de terrain, Bornéo Indonésien, Sublime Frequencies,SF-106.

Ouvrage en direction

• 2010 – “Musiche dal Viet Nam”. Quaderni Vietnamiti,Anno IX, n.8-9/2009-2010,Turin, Italie.

Conférences

• 2016 – “Some musical aspects of the Kwangkay secondary mortuary ritual of the Dayak Benuaq (East Kalimantan)”. “3rd ITASEAS Conference  2016”, Procida, Italie.
• 2014 – “Austronesian people beyond the Archipelago: an analysis of the bronze drums in relation to the secondary mortuary ritual of the Jarai”. “New research on Indonesian traditional and contemporary arts (music, dance, theatre, visual arts): an exchange between Indonesian and Italian perspectives”, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale ‘G. Tucci’, Rome, Italie.
• 2014 – “Celebration of DeathReaffirmation of Life. An analysis of the Dong Son bronze drums in relation to the secondary mortuary ritual of the Jarai people of Central Vietnam”. Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology (ISGMA), Berlin, Allemagne.
• 2013 – “Sound and celebration of death: gong ensembles in the secondary mortuary rituals of the Jarai (Central Vietnam) compared with those of the Dayak Benuaq (East Kalimantan, Indonesia). Do they originate from the Dong Son culture?”. International Conference for Asia Pacific Art Studies (ICAPAS), Yogyakarta, Indonésie.
• 2013 – “The Space of Gong Culture in the Central Highlands of Vietnam”. European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM),Bern, Suisse.
• 2010 – “Animismo e Cattolicesimo negli Altipiani Centrali del Vietnam: dinamiche sincretiche musicali e religiose”. “Il suono e la sfera del sacro”, Université de Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italie.
• 2009 – “Jarai gong orchestras between tradition and modernity”. First International Gong Conference, Pleiku, Vietnam.