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Integrated Doctor | Contracted Researcher
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas | Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Av. de Berna, n.º 26 C
1069-061 Lisboa
Portugal
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Tel: (+351) 21 790 83 00 (ext. 1583)

Biography

Pedro Félix is a researcher at INET-MD since 1997 and collaborates with the Fado Museum since 2005. He has developed fieldwork on musical groups in Portugal, technology, phonographic publishing industry, and sound heritage. This work was presented for several scientific publications, to support the coordination of the Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX, for which he wrote more than 50 entries (in the fields of pop-rock and Fado) and its PhD thesis on musical practice in the context of industrial production. Pedro Félix was part of the research team responsible for the preparation of the Fado proposal to UNESCO’s ICH list, developing and coordinating the fieldwork and the identification of historical phonographic Fado heritage. He curated an exhibition for Museu do Fado (Óscar Cardoso. A guitar Maker). Currently coordinates the digitisation program of the music collection of the Museum of Fado, part of the ICH safeguard programme, and co-produced a multi-part relational database for phonograms. He is writing on phonographic digitising processes and know-how acquired through this project. He is co-coordinator of the european HeritaMus project (ERA-Net programs). Was a teacher at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas in the field of Ethnographic methods, on the Musicology department and Post-graduation on Studies of Popular Music. Now gives a seminar on Music in Portugal in the XXth century.