Ana Flávia Miguel

Biography

Ana Flávia Miguel completed a PhD in Music (Ethnomusicology), a Master’s degree in Music (Ethnomusicology), and a Bachelor’s degree in Music (Piano) from the University of Aveiro. Over the years she has conducted fieldwork in Portugal, Cape Verde, Italy, Brazil, Mozambique, South Africa and France. As an ethnomusicologist she is jointly responsible for the nomination file of Kola San Jon (Performative Practice of Cape Verde) as Intangible Cultural Heritage. She produced the Documentary “Kola San Jon” that won the Intangible Heritage Documentation Award at the 6th Folk Music Film Festival (Nepal, 2016). She also won the award “Research Day’14” with the poster “Classifying heritage by (re)classifying identities: The inclusion of Kola San Jon in the Portuguese List of Intangible Heritage”.

Her main domains of study include African Musics, Music and migration, Music and Postcolonialism, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Digital Archives on Music, Audiovisual Ethnomusicology, Applied Ethnomusicology and studies about music in Cape Verde and music in Portugal. She has participated in several competitive research projects such as Skopeofonia, SOMA, Atlas, Libersound, CISE. She collaborates with 32 colleagues from fields such as Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, History, Information Sciences, Artistic Creation, and Museology in Africa, America, and Europe.

Currently she holds a position as Assistant Researcher at the Universidade de Aveiro, Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança. She serves as a Member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Communication and Art for the area of Internationalization and Cooperation. Since 2024 is the director and editor of Transcultural Music Journal (TRANS) of the Sociedad de Etnomusicologia (SIBE).