About
Miriam Rovsing Olsen is a Senior Lecturer at the Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC), affiliated with CNRS and Université Paris Nanterre. Her research examines Berber musical traditions in Morocco's Atlas Mountains through ethnographic fieldwork spanning 1975 to present. She specializes in analyzing song, oral poetry, rituals, and dances within agricultural contexts.
Olsen's core research interests include:
- Ethnomusicology of Berber communities
- Ritual performance and symbolism
- Oral poetry transmission
- Agricultural-musical relationships
- Regional comparative studies
- Botanical metaphors in musical temporality
Her publications demonstrate consistent focus on ritual structures, with recent work exploring Mediterranean musical diversity (2022) and rhythmic metamorphoses linked to botanical processes (2019). Field recordings are archived at the Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie.
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