News | The ROSSIO infrastructure has two new publications on music

The ROSSIO Infrastructure hosts two new publications, a collection on opera in Portugal and an exhibition about music and identity, bringing together different contributions from INET-md members.

Marco Roque de Freitas, integrated researcher at INET-md, and a post-doc fellow in the Infrastructure from 2020 to 2023, authors the collection ‘Quinze recursos para uma história da Ópera em Portugal’ (Fifteen resources for a history of opera in Portugal), in which he discusses different moments in the history of this musical-theatrical genre from the following analytical perspectives: the spaces of operatic production, the composers whose work was influential, the dominant musical aesthetics, the Portuguese singers who developed an international career, the uses of social representation at different times, the critical reception of the works, the promotion strategies using new technologies, without neglecting the alleged instrumentalization of this genre as a vehicle for the promotion of national and nationalist ideals.

Now available in digital form is also the exhibition ‘A Música Somos Nós: sons, identidades, comunidades’ (Music is us: sounds, identities, communities), which was originally commissioned by DGArtes in the last quarter of 2010. With scientific coordination by Paulo Ferreira de Castro (CESEM) and iconographic research by Marco Roque de Freitas and Ricardo Andrade (INET-md), the exhibition also features texts by Clara Saraiva, Dario Martinelli, Helena Rodrigues, João Soeiro de Carvalho, Leonor Losa, Marco Roque de Freitas, Maria de São José Côrte-Real, Maria do Rosário Pestana, Pedro Roxo, Ricardo Andrade and Rui Cidra.

The ROSSIO Infrastructure has as its core mission to aggregate, organize, link, contextualize, enrich, and disseminate a unique universe of digital content about social sciences and humanities (SSH) from research activities, repositories, archives, libraries, art collections, and databases. Through a dynamic research infrastructure, ROSSIO aims to provide a broad, diverse, and valuable range of quality content and services with great potential for the cultural and creative industries. The ROSSIO Infrastructure is consituted by a consortium of cultural and educational institutions. Together, the School of Social Sciences and Humanites of NOVA University Lisbon (consortium coordinator), the Arquivo Nacional do Som, the Biblioteca Central de Marinha, the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, the Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema, the Direção de História e Cultura Militar, the Direção Regional do Arquivo e Biblioteca da Madeira, the Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas, the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, the Instituto Diplomático do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Património Cultural, I.P., the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II and the Universidade de Coimbra, provide a set of unique primary sources and resources representative of the richness and diversit of the history, society and cultural heritage of the Portuguese language. ROSSIO is also the Portuguese node for the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH).