DRUM · Disguise Ritual Music

This multidisciplinary exchange program aims to achieve at the same time one and variegated vision of disguise practices, concerning sonic events. It is our belief that an explanation of such issues would enable to cast new light on what we consider one of the most founding elements of every cultural process: the ritual aspect. Methodological relevance this project conveys in comparing different disciplines and praxis has got the task of giving a stable basis to the interpenetration of Ethnomusicology and Historical Musicology, with connections to Clinical Psychology and Anthropology. We will move along two metodological lines: one attentive to the ""context"" and the other to ""text"" of the phenomenon of crossdressed musicians in Morocco.The programme has 2 Work Packages. WP 1 (‘Searching for materials and documents in archives, libraries