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GIEEMP Seminar | Autonomy, negotiation and recreation: folk musicians and the case of their participation in “medieval fairs”
PERMANENT SEMINAR OF THE RESEARCH GROUP ON ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND STUDIES IN POPULAR MUSIC
16.10.2024 | 2:30 PM | NOVA FCSH, Colégio Almada Negreiros, Campolide (Lisbon) | Room 208 - Floor 2 | Zoom Room
Free entrance, both online and in presence.
Autonomy, negotiation and recreation: folk musicians and the case of their participation in "medieval fairs"
Pedro Nunes | INET-md/NOVA FCSH
In this seminar I will focus on the careers of musicians within the universe of traditional folk music in Portugal in the 21st century. This study follows up previous research in which I addressed the practices and values of these musicians in relation to music publishing and the strategies they develop to ensure, as far as possible, autonomous and sustainable careers. I will use the case study of medieval fairs as a type of event in which positions of negotiation, commitment and resistance develop, whether in relation to musical practices (choice of repertoires, arrangements and performance, etc.), or in relation to the working conditions that frame them. This will be carried out in a critical and sustained dialogue with the notions of artistic worlds (Becker, 1982), of DIY modes of music production, presented by several authors over the last few years, as well as with more systemic approaches where the autonomy of the musician, as professional of the arts, is counterbalanced by the effects of contemporary capitalist modes of artistic production (Banks 2010, Boltanski & Chiappelo 2005, Menger 2002, Ryan 1991).
Pedro Nunes | Is an Integrated Researcher at INET-md, 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 subjects such as journalism and music criticism, the phonographic industry, independent music labels and youth cultures and music. 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).
