João Ricardo Pinto

Biography

PhD in Musical Sciences (Ethnomusicology) from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (New University of Lisbon) in 2019, with a dissertation on musical production in the early days of Portuguese Radio Television (RTP). Previously, he studied Lisbon’s Popular Marches, the central theme of his master’s thesis that he defended at the same institution in 2004. Her professional activity has been as a lecturer in higher education, namely at the Almeida Garrett School of Education (between 2005 and 2012) and at the Lisbon School of Education (since 2016). Since 2014 he has been a collaborating researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md). In 2019 he developed a research project under the ERASMUS+ program at the University of Alicante, dedicated to the Benidorm Music Festival. His publications include: “A vertente musical nas Marchas Populares de Lisboa” [The musical aspect of Lisbon’s Popular Marches] in Joana Amaral (ed.) cumpliCIDADE. Câmara Municipal de Lisboa: EGEAC (2007); “Da Rádio para a Televisão: Modelos e Processos de Produção Musical nos Primórdios da Televisão em Portugal” [From Radio to Television: Music Production Models and Processes in the Early Days of Television in Portugal] in Marco Brescia and Rosana Marreco Brescia (eds.) Actas do II Encontro Ibero-Americano de Jovens Musicólogos. Tagus-Atlanticus Associação Cultural: Porto, 2014; “Vedetas precisam-se: o papel da revista Rádio e Televisão na criação de novos intérpretes em Portugal no início da década de 1960” [Stars are needed: the role of Rádio e Televisão magazine in creating new interpreters in Portugal in the early 1960s]. Cuadernos de Etnomusicología 10, 2017; “Propaganda e religião em Portugal: festivais de música ligeira (1958-1964)” [Propaganda and religion in Portugal: light music festivals (1958-1964)]. REVER – Revista de Estudos da Religião 20(3), 2020. Currently, he is working on revising his doctoral thesis, which will be published by Tinta da China in 2025: “Onde? Como? Quanto? Quando?” – a produção musical nos primórdios da Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (1956-1964) [“Where? How? How much? When?” – musical production in the early days of Portuguese Radio Television (1956-1964)].