Monika Stern
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Status: Research Fellow, CNRS, LESC
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Research topics:
Music in Vanuatu: circulations, property rights, borrowings and appropriations, political constructions, identity building, urban and youth studies, digital technologies, fieldwork practices
Cursus:
December 2002, Ph.D in Music History and Musicology, Paris 4-Sorbonne University, Supervisor : Professor François Picard, Subject: Women, Braids and Music on Pentecost Island (Vanuatu).
October 1998, DEA in Music History and Musicology in Paris 4-Sorbonne University, Subject: Sowahavin, a Women’s Dance on Pentecost Island (Vanuatu)
October 1997, Maîtrise (Master) of Music in Paris 4-Sorbonne University (subject: The Polish folkloric influences in the music of Henryk Wieniawski)
June 1997, Licence (Bachelor) of Anthropology in Paris 10-Nanterre University
Fieldwork:
2016 Fieldwork in Vanuatu to continue researches with Port-Vila musicians for a Web documentary and book. (1 month)2016 Fieldwork in Vanuatu to continue researches with Port-Vila musicians for a Web documentary and book. (1 month)
2016 New Caledonia for ARC (Australian Research Council) project in international team. Music, Mobile phones and Community justice in Melanesia. (1 month)
2012 October - November 2012 Research with musicians from Port Vila (Vanuatu)
February 2007 to October 2011, Residence in Vanuatu (Port-Vila)
March 2005 to April 2006 Researches in Vanuatu (Ambae, Maewo, Banks, Torres) within the framework of an ACI (Action Concertée Incitative) Jeunes Chercheuses et Jeunes Chercheurs (Ministry of Research).
January 2003, Mission in French Guyana for one month to start the research project for “Inventory of unpublished sound’s content in French Guyana”. Management of Architecture and Ethnological Patrimony (Ministry of Culture, – France).
January to April 2002, three months researches in Vanuatu to finalize PHD field work
February 2000- February 2001, one year to carry out a study for the PHD thesis (Pentecost Island). In Port Vila worked in the Vanuatu Cultural Centre’s Sound Archives developing a digital catalogue. Stay financed by the Lavoisier Stock Exchange of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
June to August 1998, first mission to Vanuatu for the DEA (Master 2) studies.
Publications:
2017« Le reggae : un remède contre la marginalisation ? Construction de la jeunesse urbaine à travers la musique (Port-Vila, Vanuatu) » / “Is Music a “Safe Place”? The Creative and Reactive Construction of Urban Youth through Reggae Music (Port Vila, Vanuatu)”, Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 144-145, pp.117-130 and online version in English.
2016« Les cheminements de l’ethnomusicologue. D’une ethnomusicologie de sauvegarde vers une ethnomusicologie du contemporain », Cahiers d’Ethnomusicologie, n°29, 2016, Ateliers d’Ethnomusicologie, Genève, pp.55-72.
2016Article « Culte des ancêtres au Vanuatu », co-authored with Leslie Vandeputte-Tavo and two notices: « Qwat » and « Tagaro » in Dictionnaire Universel des Dieux, Déesses, Démons, edited by Patrick Jean-Baptiste, published by Seuil. 2014 Monika STERN, "“Mi wantem musik blong mi hemi blong evriwan” [“I want my music to be for everyone”] Digital developments, copyright and music circulation in Port Vila, Vanuatu”, First Monday, vol.19, n°10.http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5551/4130
2013 Monika STERN, "Music in Traditional Exchanges in North Vanuatu", Pacific Studies, Vol.36, n°1/2, Apr./Aug.2013
2013 Report of : « Raymond AMMANN : Sounds of Secrets. Field Notes on Ritual Music and Musical Instruments on the Islands of Vanuatu, Münster : LIT, Klang Kultur Studien/Sound Cultural Studies, 2012, 313 p.», Cahiers d’Ethnomusicologie, n°26, 2013, Ateliers d’Ethnomusicologie, Genève. (forthcoming)
2013 François, Alexandre & Stern, Monika, Musiques du Vanuatu: Fêtes et Mystères – Music of Vanuatu: Celebrations and Mysteries. 1 CD Inédit/Maison des Cultures du Monde (Paris), W 260147, recordings, photos and texts (24+128 pages)
Booklet in free access : http://www.maisondesculturesdumonde.org/vanuatu-musiques-du-vanuatu
2007 Monika STERN, « Les identités musicales multiples au Vanuatu », Cahiers ’Ethnomusicologie, n°20, 2007, Ethnomusicology Workshop, Geneva.
2001 Collaboration with Raymond Ammann for the creation of a CD « Ol Voes blong Vanuatu, Voices of Vanuatu, Les voix du Vanuatu ». VKS-Productions, Port-Vila, Vanuatu, 2001 (recordings pl. 27, 39 et 46).
2000 Monika STERN, « La permanence du changement ou les métissages musicaux au Vanuatu », Cahiers de Musiques Traditionnelles, n°13, 2000, Geneva: Musée d’Ethnographie/AIMP.
1999 Co-authored Article: Bernard FLOIRAT, Aneta JANIACZYK, Diana LIGETI, Nicolas MEEÙS, Isabelle POINLOUP, Marie Laure RAGOT, Monika STERN, « La gamme double française et la méthode du si », Musurgia, vol.VI /3-4, 1999, Paris. Published with the assistance of the Société française d’analyse musicale, Editions Eska ISSN 1257 - 7537.
Research Programs:
August 2015-December 2018 "Music, Mobile Phones and Community Justice in Melanesia", project ARC (Australian Research Council). Project holder: Macquarie University (Sydney).
July 2009-July 2010, research as one of the supervisors and trainersof Sawagoro Project with financial support of Christensen Fund. Project includes research and research training programme for young n-Vanuatu about Sawagoro: the Vanuatu multi islands custom dance. See Sawagoro Project
October 2004 to October 2007 Research within the framework of an ACI (Action Concertée Incitative) Jeunes Chercheuses et Jeunes Chercheurs (Ministry of Research), in a multi-disciplinary team for CNRS-LACITO. Title of the Project: Rythmes à danser, poèmes à chanter en Mélanésie : esthétique, transmission et impact social des arts musicaux au Vanuatu (Rhythms to be Danced, Poems to be Sung in Melanesia: Aesthetics, transmission and social impact of the musical arts in the Vanuatu).
January 2003, Mission in French Guyana for one month to start the research project for “Inventory of unpublished sound’s content in French Guyana”. Project was financed by the Management of Architecture and Ethnological Patrimony (Ministry of Culture, – France).
Academic Lecturing:
Academic years 2002/2003 and 2003/2004, Ethnomusicology Lecturer at Charles-De-Gaulle University, Lille 3 (Musical Studies Department) position as Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche (Lecturer).
Presentations:
January 2018 Séminaire : Faire de l’anthropologie en contexte postcolonial : le cas du Vanuatu, EHESS, « Faire du politique avec la musique ? Le processus de la politisation d’un évènement culturel (le cas du Fest’Napuan au Vanuatu) » (Doing politics with music. The process of politicizing a cultural event (the case of Fest'Napuan in Vanuatu), Paris, EHESS.
September 2017 Université Franco-Allemande, Cité des Musiques du Monde, Centre Georg Simmel (CNRS-EHESS_Cité des Arts), Université d’été 2017 : La musique des migrants dans les camps. Faire de l’art en situation d’urgence. « Le reggae : un remède à la marginalisation ? Construction de la jeunesse urbaine à travers la musique. (Port-Vila, Vanuatu) » (Is Music a “Safe Place”? The Creative and Reactive Construction of Urban Youth through Reggae Music (Port Vila, Vanuatu)), Bayonne, Cité des Arts.
May 2017 Séminaire de la FRAO (Formation à la Recherche dans Aire Océanienne), EHESS, « L’émergence de l’industrie musicale en Mélanésie. Quand la musique devient marchande… le cas du Vanuatu » (The emergence of the music industry in Melanesia. When music becomes commodity ... the case of Vanuatu), Paris, EHESS.
May 2017 Séminaire : Faire de l’anthropologie en contexte postcolonial : le cas du Vanuatu, EHESS, « De la pratique musicale à l’anthropologie de la musique. Les déambulations d’une démarche musico-scientifique à travers les transformations musicales du Vanuatu » (From musical practice to the anthropology of music. A drive of a musico-scientific approach through the musical transformations of Vanuatu), Paris, EHESS.
May 2017 Journées d’études : La recherche filmée en sciences sociales, Ouverture à l’image et légitimité scientifique. « Paroles des Musiciens – témoignages de Port-Vila : le Web Documentaire comme espace de l’expression des musiciens » (Musician’s Words – testimonies from Port-Vila : film documentary as a space for the musician’s expression), Maison Asie Pacifique/IrAsia, Marseille, MUCEM.
April 2017 Cinéma/conférences de la Société des Océanistes, « Ce que le reggae fait au Vanuatu. Perspectives d’un Web Documentaire » (What reggae does in Vanuatu. Perspectives of a Web Documentary), Paris, Musée du Quai Branly.
February 2017 Séminaire d'ethnoarchéologie de l'Océanie à Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, « Les instruments de musique au Vanuatu » (Music instruments in Vanuatu), Paris, Institut d’Art et d’Archéologie.
January 2017 Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Cours : Instruments de musique : Organologie et classifications, « Les instruments de musique au Vanuatu » (Music instruments in Vanuatu), Paris, Musée de l’Homme.
October 2016 Workshop : Wok blong ethnomusicology long Vanuatu (Ethnomusicology in Vanuatu), for Port-Vila’s musicians organised by Further Arts in Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Port Vila (Vanuatu).
February 2016 Séminaire du CREDO, Présentation de l'avancement du travail du Web Documentaire : Paroles des musiciens (Presentation of the Web Documentary work in progress : Musician’s words ) (with Gaspard D’Ornano), Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université.
September 2015 5th Asia and Pacifique Congres (Paris) : Documentation des traditions musicales au Vanuatu : Création et vie des archives à l’ère numérique (Documentation of musical traditions in Vanuatu: creation and life of archives in the digital age) (with Alexandre François)
July 2015 ICTM 43rd World Conference 2015 à Astana, Kazakhstan: Digital developments and music circulations in Port Vila (Vanuatu). How music in the digital age involves human relationships.
July 2015 Global Digital Humanities 2015, University of Western Sydney: The Impact of Gender and Local Identity on Vanuatu’s Digital Music Industry, (in absentia) (with Thomas Dick).
May 2014 Journées d'Etude de la Société Française d'Ethnomusicologie, Cité de la Musique (Paris) : Quand le terrain devient vie et vice versa. A quoi sert l'ethnomusicologue ? (When the fieldwork becomes life and vice versa. What is the ethnomusicologist for?)
October 2013, e-Toile Pacifique Conference, Les Musiques comme affirmation du prestige : droits et tranqmission des musiques du Vanuatu. (Music as an affirmation of prestige : rights and music transmission in Vanuatu)
October 2013, e-Toile Pacifique conference, « Vanuatu Paradise » : la fin d’une illusion ? Les clips reggae à Port-Vila (Vanuatu) : outils de revendication politiques ("Vanuatu Paradise" the end of illusion ? Reggae music clips in Port-Vila (Vanuatu)) (with Leslie Vandeputte-Tavo)
December 2012, presentation at CREM (Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie, LESC-CNRS), La circulation des musiques dans le système d'échanges du Nord du Vanuatu (Circulation of music in the exchange system in North Vanuatu).
December 2012, "The Power of the Pacific, Values, Materials, Images", Conference ESFO at Bergen, title of presentation : Post-colonial reflexivities of ni-vanuatu urban youth in the music industry (with Thomas Dick).
September 2012 “Innovation, Development, Creativity and Access to Knowledge in Pacific Islands Countries », Conference in ANU (Canberra), présentation title : Traditional ways of music exchanges in north Vanuatu. (in absentia)
May 2012 FRAO (Formation à la Recherche dans Aire Océanienne), EHESS, La jeunesse urbaine et les musiciens de Port-Vila. (The urban youths and the musicians in Port-Vila)
January 2012 presentation at CREDO, Le travail de l’ethnomusicologue. Quelques problématiques autour des musiques du Vanuatu. (The work of ethnomusicologist. Some problematics about Vanuatu music)
30 April 2009, Lecture at French Embassy at Port-Vila (Vanuatu), Quand « le terrain » devient vie. Les problématiques des recherches du terrain en ethnomusicologie. (When fieldwork becomes life. Fieldwork problematics of ethnomusicology research).
16 January 2009, Lecture at Marseille, Centre de Recherches et de Documentation CREDO, Quand le terrain devient « vie ». L’évolution des projets de recherches en fonction des expériences de terrain. (When fieldwork becomes « life ». The evolution of the research projects with the fieldworks).
October 2008, Lecture at French Embassy at Port-Vila (Vanuatu) A qui appartient la chanson? Les droits d’auteur sur les savoirs de tradition orale (Whose is the song ? Copyrights in oral tradition knowledge)
November 2006 Presentation entitled "Kilim ol bambu, singim ol singsing, Musik long north blong Vanuatu tedei (Penama Mo Torba Province)" in the Vanuatu Research Conference "After 26 years: Collaborative research in Vanuatu since Independence "Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta, Port-Vila, November 6-9, 2006.
November 10, 2005 Lecture given to the National Museum of Vanuatu, organized by the association of the "Friends of the Museum" entitled “A Musical Voyage Through the Islands of the Provinces of Penama and Torba (Vanuatu): Why preserve, promote and study the traditional music of the archipelago?”
Presentation of Ph.D thesis work during the Automn’s Day of the French Ethnomusicology Society, December 7, 2002.