The ceremony for the award of honorary citizenship to Professor Bernard Lortat-Jacob , born in 1941, who lives in Paris and has been visiting the city of Castelsardo for over 40 years, will be held tomorrow in Room XI of the Doria Castle at 7 pm.
An excellence in the panorama of anthropology and general musicology, a central figure of European ethnomusicology, who has held prestigious positions including: Director of Research at the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, head of the Ethnomusicology Laboratory of the Musée de l' Homme of Paris, as well as founder of the French Society of Ethnomusicology.
An expert in Mediterranean traditions, he has studied traditional cultures in Morocco, Albania, Romania and Sardinia. For more than twenty years he has dedicated himself to the study of popular music in Sardinia, in particular of traditional religious songs. He is also an honorary brother of the Confraternity of the Oratorio Santa Croce di Castelsardo since 1993, he knows well, from the inside, the reality of the Confraternity and its traditions.
«The strong bonds of friendship cultivated with the Brothers have closely inserted him in the Castellanese environment and have aroused in him the happy intuition of elaborating a text of about 300 pages, "Canti di Passione" with attached CD, with Holy Week at the center of Castelsardo, considered a fundamental text of ethnomusicology», underline from the municipality of Castelsardo.
