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Defense of Doctoral Thesis | Leon Bucaretchi

03.04.2025 | 10 am | NOVA FCSH, Colégio Almada Negreiros | Room 223 - 2nd floor 
 

The doctoral exams in Music Sciences - specialising in Ethnomusicology, by Master Leon Tolentino Bucaretchi, will be held at Colégio Almada Negreiros on 3 April 2025 at 10 am, with the theme "The heritage of Django: Ethnomusical and acoustic perspectives on the Manouche guitar".

 

 
Jury of Leon Bucaretchi's doctoral exams:
 
  • President: João Soeiro de Carvalho, Full Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon.
  • Victor Stoichita, Chargé de Recherche at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France.
  • Filipe Marcelo Correia Brito Reis, Assistant Professor at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.
  • Octávio Inácio, Director of InAcoustics Lisboa and Adjunct Professor at ESMAE, Porto.
  • Vincent Debut, Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco and Integrated Researcher of INET-md at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon.
  • Filippo Bonini Baraldi, Principal Researcher of INET-md at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon.

 

 
Supervisor: Vincent Debut
Co-supervisor: Filippo Baraldi
 
 
Abstract:
 
Inspired by the work of Manouche guitarist Django Reinhardt, Gypsy jazz or jazz Manouche is present at international jazz and world music festivals. This musical genre developed within a community and found its voice in an iconic guitar. To understand the guitar’s sound associated with Manouche people, we need to be aware of the nature of a specific instrument and the way and context of its utilization. In this research, we studied the vibratory characteristics of the Manouche guitar in the laboratory and detailed its morphology, referencing discussions with luthiers specialized in this instrument’s construction. Two years of fieldwork allowed us to view this instrument inserted into context, observing how it is used, by whom, and the importance of community practice and the pedagogy of jazz Manouche in the sound we hear when a musician plays a Manouche guitar. Therefore, this thesis elucidates how the characteristics of an instrument, sound conceptions of musicians of the Manouche genre, and performance techniques interconnect to define the sound of the Manouche guitar.