Chiara De Dominicis

Chiara De Dominicis is a PhD student in Music Sciences, specializing in Ethnomusicology, at NOVA FCSH and INET-md. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Florence in October 2020, following an ERASMUS exchange at the University of Oslo. In April 2024, she completed a master’s degree in Music Sciences at the University of Pavia, Department of Musicology in Cremona. During her studies, she undertook a six-month internship at the Library and Archive of the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Florence and participated in an ERASMUS semester at NOVA FCSH. Her master’s thesis, titled “Tra centro e periferie: una mappatura dell’ecosistema musicale della città di Firenze” (Between Center and Peripheries: Mapping the Music Ecosystem of the City of Florence), explored the mapping of live music venues in Florence as a tool to analyze the urban music ecosystem, offering both quantitative data and qualitative insights. This work originated by the collaboration with the Live Music Mapping Project (LMMP), where she contributed to mapping and analyzing the music ecosystem of Milan. In June 2024, she presented at the international conference Mapping Music Life in Florence, alongside the LMMP research group from Milan, with a panel titled “Three Views of a Secret: Discussing Milan’s LMMP Map Live Music Ecosystem.”