 She served as Secretary General of the Società Italiana di Etnomusicologia (1982–86) and Chairperson of the ICTM Italian Committee (from 1986).She was founder in 1992 and chair since then of the ICTM Study Group, "Anthropology of Music in Mediterranean Cultures".In 1994 she founded the Web bulletin, "Italian Ethnomusicology," transformed in 1996 into the multimedia Web journal Music and Anthropology

She contributed articles to "The World of Music", "Yearbook for Traditional Music", "Ethnomusicology OnLine" (EOL), "MGG", and "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians" (forthcoming).