City to City: Urban Crossroads in the Music of Africa, Brazil and Portugal
DATE: Wednesday 29 June – Friday 1 July 2016
VENUES: Anatomy Museum, King’s College London & Brazilian Embassy
Panels & Speakers:
1. Relocating Rio de Janeiro
- Tânia Costa Garcia (Unesp): Rio de Janeiro, FUNARTE, Brazilian popular music history and the discourse of urban folklorists
- Fabiana Lopes da Cunha (Unesp): Samba carioca, place and identity
- Cláudia Matos (UFF): Samba in and out of town: locations and scenes
Followed by round-table discussion on Noel Rosa, samba and musical life in 1930s Rio de Janeiro
2. Colonial and post-colonial transnationalisms
- Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa, PPGM-UNIRIO: Waltzes, barrel organs, and music boxes - transatlantic crossings between Europe and Rio de Janeiro in the early 19th century
- Eugênio Santana, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Moçambique/ Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território/ Univ. de Lisboa: Cape Verdean play, Angolan dance and Mozambican claps: a second look at transnationalism in post-colonial identity
- Eduardo Lichuge, Universidade de Aveiro/ Universidade Eduardo Mondlane: A critique of written and oral historical musical sources on the timbila of Mozambique
- Luiz Moretto, King’s College London: African rhythms on bowed stringed instruments: between Brazil, Cape Verde and Mozambique
Film Screening: Saudade do Futuro (Marie-Clemence & Cesar Paes) (São Paulo city in the words and voices of Nordestino repentistas)
3. Migrations and diasporas
- Jean Carlo Faustino, Universidade Federal de São Carlos: A diáspora na moda-de-viola
- Bart Vanspauwen, Universidade Nova de Lisboa: Lusofonia as intervention: postcolonial intercultural traffic in Lusophone hip hop events
- António Tavares, Cape Verde: danças caboverdiana
- Rui Cidra, FCSH, UNL: Transnational networks, World Music and creole formations: Cape Verdean music in the Diaspora.
4. Brazilian music abroad
- Emilia Chamone, Centre Georg Simmel, EHESS (École des hautes études en sciences sociales): A transmissão e a criação musical dos maracatus de baque virado parisienses
- Amanda Guerreiro, ICS-Universidade de Lisboa: "A piece of Brazil in Lisbon": Brazilian musical practices in the Portuguese capital
- Gabril Hoskin, Belfast/London: ‘De Madrid al Cielo’: Tourism and Spectacle among Brazilian Musicians in Madrid
- Jason Stanyek, Univ. Oxford: 'A Brazilian in New York': Diaspora, Music, Brazil
5. De-metropolitanizing Brazil – Other cities
- Jeder Janotti Jr – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE): music scenes in Recife/heavy metal in Salvador
- Adriana Amaral (Universidade Vale dos Sinos/Rio Grande do Sul): rock and electronic music scenes in Porto Alegre]
- Felipe Trotta – Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), 1990s pagode/ Northeast forró eletrônico.
- Daniela Vieira dos Santos, Unicamp: São Paulo rap
Film Screening: A Batalha do Passinho/Passinho Dance Off (Emilio Domingos)
6. Music industries, scenes and technologies
- Paula Guerra (Universidade do Porto), punk, electronic music scene, underground culture in Portugal
- Simone Pereira de Sá, UFF/Kings: digital platforms, materiality of media artifacts and music scenes.
- Márcia Tosta Dias, UNIFESP: Post-punk musical scenes in Brazil
- Sandra D’Angelo, Kings College London: Baile Funk Remix: from Rio to London
- Marissa J. Moorman (Indiana University): Bonga's Transatlantic Routes