Introduction

Marco Lutzu is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Cagliari, Italy. He holds a PhD in “History and Analysis of Musical Cultures” from University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and has held research fellowships at the Universities of Venice ‘Ca’ Foscari’ (2014) and Cagliari (2016).

He has carried out fieldwork in Sardinia, Cuba, and Equatorial Guinea focusing on the relationship between music and religion, improvised poetry, hip hop culture, and performance analysis.

He is scientific director of the ‘Encyclopedia of Sardinian Music’ (L’Unione Sarda 2012) and co-editor of the book ‘Investigating Musical Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections’ (Routledge 2020).

Since 2018 he is scientific supervisor, together with Giovanni Giuriati and Simone Tarsitani, of “Eyes on music: Projects on visual ethnomusicology”, promoted by the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies (IISMC) of the Cini Foundation (Venice).

As an audiovisual ethnomusicologist, he has prodiced over 20 documentaries on his research topics.