Marie-Christine Parent is currently completing a PhD in ethnomusicology at the Université de Montréal and the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis. Her research deals with intangible heritage, memory, and touristic staging issues related to the moutya, a musical genre and practice from the Seychelles islands (Indian ocean). She received a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for her PhD research. She is also the French review editor of the Canadian peer-reviewed journal MUSICultures.