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

          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
     

City to City: Urban Crossroads in the Music of Africa, Brazil and Portugal