SINBAD - Digital Collection on Jazz

Historical phonograms (78 rpm) of fado and other genres of popular music (+ info)

 

 

Developed reseach under the Candidacy of fado to UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (Fado Museum/EGEAC/INET-MD), Fado in the XXth Century: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Portuguese Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Project Coordination: Pedro Félix e Salwa Castelo-Branco

FCT Grant: POCTI/EAT/60614/2004

Participant Institution: Museu do Fado/EGEAC

Research Team: Ana Filipa Carvalho, Gonçalo Antunes de Oliveira, Diana Matos, Cátia Susana Cruz e João Madeira

Online Database Contents Management: António Tilly and Hugo Silva 

 

The most complete and up-to-date resource of its kind anywhere, it constitutes an indispensable resource for research that can be consulted within the premises of INET-MD. 

PortMuse consists of 15 relational data bases on all domains of music in 20th century Portugal that are permanently updated. 

Information about:

- Individuals: composers, performers, promoters, educators, musicologists, folklorists, ethnographers
- Institutions
- Performance groups, performance venues and events
- Music and dance genres
- Musical instruments and instrument makers
- Record publishers
- Sheet Music of Fado
- Work lists of Portuguese composers
- Bibliographies, discographies, filmographies and iconography.

The digital Collection on Jazz was developed under the "Aveiro Digital City" project after the donnation of the José Duarte's Jazz divulger of his personal collection. The collection includes LPs, CDs, books, manuscripts, films and other museographic artifacts. José Duarte is one of the most important jazz divulgers in Portugal and has been collaboratiing with Aveiro University and INET-md since 2001.