NINA BARATTI
Born in Apulia, Southern Italy, in 1990. A lover of all the arts, she is particularly fascinated by music and its power to create, alter, and rebuild social bonds across time and space. Doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology at Harvard University (USA), she has recently undertaken a research project on Angolan urban popular music. Before moving to the United States, she worked in public education as a music teacher and violin teacher, an instrument she majored in at the Conservatory. In 2016, she obtained her Master’s degree in Musicology from the University of Milan and was an Erasmus student in Lisbon where she developed her dissertation project, an ethnography on the migration experience of a griot and Mandinka kora player. Her studies in Portugal influenced her research interests in the area of urban ethnomusicology and anthropology of sound, with a special focus on the Lusophone musical universe. Besides music, Nina has a strong passion for contemporary art that led her to collaborate in the past with Moleskine Foundation (AtWork NYC; AtWork Digital Pilot), and to participate in the virtual program “Museo Futuro”, a training course in Experimental Museology, conceived and sponsored by the Donnaregina Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Museo MADRE. The interest in the intersections between art and ethnography and the importance of developing an active and engaged role outside the academy was what most motivated her in the creation of Quintal.
