Events | INET-md's Heritage(s), Archives and Museums Thematic Line promotes a specialization module in Everyday Phonography

Heritage(s), Archives and Museums thematic line

The Heritage(s), Archives and Museums Thematic Line is part of INET-md's strategic project, reflecting the ongoing work of curating, analyzing and restoring archives and musical instruments, carried out since 1995 by different research groups. This work has driven heritage processes in Portugal and at UNESCO and collaborative partnerships with museums, foundations and other entities.

May 5, 19, 26 and June 2 | 2 pm– 6 pm| Jazz Studies Centre | Universidade de Aveiro

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Specialization module / Everyday Phonography: Practices of a new sound culture at the beginning of the 20th century

José Geraldo Vinci de Moraes (USP and INET-md collaborator)

The specialization module "Everyday Phonography: Practices of a New Sound Culture in the Early 20th Century" aims to discuss the challenges of a new historiographical field focused on sounds, sonorities, and ways of listening. It seeks to understand the role of sounds in historical experiences and how they have changed over time. In this context, the concept of Sound Cultures becomes central to both theoretical reflection and historiographical research. The main focus will be to explore how, in the early days of phonography in the early 20th century, there was a search for various paths and experiences before music and song became central cultural elements and commodities in the phonographic industry. It is believed that during this time, a kind of Everyday Phonography emerged, which reflected and questioned aspects of life undergoing significant transformation. This phonography generally aimed to challenge modern life, in contrast to the slower pace of an archaic daily life in the process of disintegration. By capturing these changes, early phonograms recorded shifts in sensibilities in general, and in soundscapes in particular. Additionally, this phonography played an important role in shaping new ways of listening, mediated by machines. In this way, everyday phonography was closely connected to the creation of a new sound culture.

Module Schedule

Session 1 | May 5
Introduction to the theoretical and organizational framework of the specialization module.

Session 2 | May 19

An introduction to the concept of Everyday Phonography, drawing primarily on the fields of the History of Sensibility, Everyday Life, and Sound Studies.

Session 3 | May 26

Analysis of cafés as spaces of sociability and leisure in the early 20th century, with a focus on the role of phonography and sound practices in processes of cultural modernization.

Session 4 | June 2
Presentation and discussion of the specifics of an ongoing investigation into Everyday Phonography in the José Moças Collection.

José Geraldo Vinci de Moraes | Associate Professor MS-3 in Theory and Methodology of History at the Department of History of the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages, and Human Sciences (FFLCH) of the University of São Paulo (USP). He is a professor in the Graduate Program in Social History at FFLCH-USP and was an adjunct professor in the Graduate Program of the Department of Music at ECA-USP. He holds the titles of Livre-Docente and Doctor in Social History from the University of São Paulo and completed his postdoctoral studies at Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre. He is a PQ-1 researcher at CNPq in the CA-AC area, specializing in Music. He served as editor of Revista de História (2013–2017) and was a member of its Editorial Board (2009–2023). He is the coordinator of the Laboratory of History and Sonic Culture (LHCS-USP) and the CNPq Research Group “Between Memory and the History of Music,” as well as a full member of both the Interdisciplinary Center for Studies on Football and Recreational Modalities (Ludens-USP) and the Laboratory for Sound and Music Studies (LMS-Unicamp). He is the author of numerous articles and several books, notably Sonoridades paulistanas (Silvio Romero MinC-Funarte Award. Funarte, 1997), Metrópole em sinfonia (Estação Liberdade, 2000), Conversas com historiadores brasileiros (Ed. 34, 2002), Arranjos e timbres da música em São Paulo (Ed. Paz e Terra, 2004), História e música no Brasil (Ed. Alameda, 2010), Michel de Certeau: pensador das diferenças (Ed. Vozes, 2011), Criar o mundo do nada. A invenção de uma historiografia da música popular no Brasil (Ed. Intermeios, 2019), and Cidade (dis)Sonante. Novas práticas e culturas sonoras em São Paulo no início do século XX (Ed. Intermeios, 2023)