News | Researchers of INET-md at the conference KISMIF’2024

The international conference KISMF – Keep it Simple, Make it Fast, this year devoted to “DIY Cultures, Democracy and Creative Participation”, was attended by two integrated researchers and two PhD candidates of INET-md, all of them members of the research group on Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies.

Bart Vanspauwen presented a paper titled “The ‘dark’ side of Lusophony in the songs/video clips “Versos que atravessam o Atlântico” and “Guetos de Guiné-Bissau””, a work integrated in the panel on “Redes de música pop-periférica lusófonas: alianças transversais, tensões e dissensos”, held by the project “Redes de música pop-periféricas lusófonas: gêneros, formatos,performances e narrativas em fluxos no ecossistema digital”, coordinated by the researcher Simone Pereira de Sá (Univ. Federal Fluminense).

Pedro Nunes, Maria Teresa Lacerda and Nathália Andrião Trotta contributed to the panel “Modern music/Modern love: fruition, consumption, publishing and production”, coordinated by Luiz Alberto Moura (CESC/UM) and Pedro Miguel Ferreira (CES/UC), with the following papers:

Pedro Nunes | “’This could never happen anywhere else’: Batida, the nexus Príncipe Discos/Filho Único and the role of cultural intermediators in 21st century music making”

Maria Teresa Lacerda | “From Silence to Song: Creation of music albums by independent queer Portuguese singer-songwriters in contemporary Portugal”

Nathália Andrião Trotta | “Escritório: The Local Art Scene Through DIY in Rio de Janeiro”

For more information, access KISMIF webpage.

The participation of these four researchers was financed by national funds through FCT — Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., with the project UIDB/00472/2020.