Maurizio Agamennone is Full Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Firenze. His research interests include poetic improvisation, living polyphonies, productions of “migrant musicians”, composition and performance practices in the European musical avant-garde, intercultural confrontation in contemporary music, critical edition of historical recordings. His recent books include: Viaggiando, per onde su onde. Il viaggio di conoscenza, la radiofonia e le tradizioni musicali locali nell’Italia del dopoguerra (1945-1960) (Squilibri 2019); Le spose di San Paolo. Immagini del tarantismo (with Luigi Chiriatti, Kurumuny 2021); Storie di Piero. Musica, cultura e società nelle imprese di Piero Farulli (Squilibri 2022); Sounds of the Pandemic: Accounts, Experiences, Perspectives in Times of COVID-19 (with Daniele Palma and Giulia Sarno, Routledge 2023).

Giulia Sarno is a researcher in Ethnomusicology at the University of Florence, where she teaches Ethnomusicology and Forms and Practices of Popular Music. Her main objects of investigation are experimental electronic music, football chanting, the sound heritages of the Tuscan territory and the promotion of music archives. She participated in the project ‘Come suona la Toscana’ (University of Florence, PRIN 2017) and is part of the research group ‘RiSME - Ricerche sulla storia della musica elettroacustica' (Italian Society of Musicology). She is author of Una storia di Tempo Reale: carte e memorie intorno a un'esperienza fiorentina di ricerca musicale (1987-2022) (Squilibri 2023) and editor, with Maurizio Agamennone and Daniele Palma, of Sounds of the Pandemic: Accounts, Experiences, Perspectives in Times of COVID-19 (Routledge 2023).