Pedro Nunes

Biography

Pedro Belchior Nunes is an Integrated Researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Centre for Studies in Music and Dance of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, having previously been an Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Management of Universidade Aberta between 2008 and 2014 and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Arts and Design of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria between 2007 and 2008. He has a degree in Sociology from FCSH-UNL and a PhD in Media Sociology from the Stirling Media Research Institute at the University of Stirling, UK. His areas of research include Popular Music Studies, the Sociology of Arts and Culture, and he has carried out research and published on diverse topics such as Journalism and Music Criticism, the Phonographic Industry, independent music production and Music and Youth Cultures. He recently co-edited with Shannon Garland and Pedro Roxo the volume ‘Independence in 21st Century Popular Music: cases from beyond anglo-america’ (Bloomsbury Academic).