Salvatore Panu, musician and researcher from Sardinia. He studied at Dams Univeristy in Bologna, and  since 1991 worked with Georges Lapassade with whom he continued his studies in Paris, where he obtained in 1997 a DESS degree in Ethnomethodology, and in 2004 a Doctorate in Education Sciences. In 1992 he founded in Bologna the Scuola Popolare di Musica Ivan Illich, which directed until 2006. Since 1988 he has been researching in the ethnomusicological and social fields (in 2001 he published the book Il mito sardo, Cultura della festa e società dello spettacolo, for Sensibili alle foglie). He is currently teaching and researching in the music field, mainly in Italy and France, conducting workshops related to improvisation techniques and collective composition, oral tradition in the popular music, arrangement techniques for unconventional street band, and history, geography and genres of social singing. He has collaborated in various forms with Paolo Fresu, Fred Frith, Jon Rose, Butch Morris, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Eugenio Colombo, Tristan Honsinger, Phil Minton, Barre Phillips, Giovanna Marini. Since 1989 he has performed in contemporary and popular music festivals in Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Croatia, Slovenia, Ireland, Turkey. He produced over a dozen albums and five CDs on ethnomusicological research.