Victor Stoichiță

Biography

Victor A. Stoichiţă investigates musical interactions at the crossroads of anthropology, ethnomusicology and cognitive science. He worked with Roma professional musicians in Romania to understand why they relate the effects of their music to concepts like “cunning” and “slyness”. This led him to broader investigations of virtuosity, musical irony, and techniques of enchantment through sound. Victor A. Stoichiţă is the current director of the Center for Research in Ethnomusicology at the Ethnology and Comparative Sociology lab of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CREM-LESC, CNRS – Université Paris Nanterre).