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Rita Santos

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Integrated | PhD Student
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas | Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Av. de Berna, n.º 26 C
1069-061 Lisboa
Portugal
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Biography

Rita Santos is a sound artist and researcher, working in the areas of sound art, acoustic ecology, and experimental music. With the proposal A Segunda Natureza (2022), she developed a sound art installation curated by OUT.FEST - Barreiro International Exploratory Music Festival. Currently, she is also developing research work in the areas of sound studies, acoustic ecology, and experimental music, as a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Ethnomusicology - Centre of Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md), at the New University of Lisbon.

 
 
 
Doctoral Project
 
Title
Music on the verge: Experimental music festivals and cultural decentralization
 
Advisor
 
Abstract
Based on the concept of festivals as spaces for artistic dynamization and phenomenological analysis, these events assert themselves both as stimuli for community interaction and as vehicles for revoking current social and musical hierarchies. Thus, this ethnography aims to explore the decentralization of experimental and improvised music in Portugal, taking as examples the festivals OUT.FEST-Festival de Música Exploratória do Barreiro, Semibreve and Space Festival. These events are spaces that challenge the canonical musical conceptions that govern social and artistic expression. Consequently, the main aim of this project is to discuss the role of festivals as instruments of social and cultural transformation, essential for intercultural mediation. From this perspective, I will investigate whether notions such as artistic innovation and the decentralization of musical practices can foster the creation of spaces that encourage accountability and social cohesion. Using a qualitative methodological framework, with an emphasis on the ethnographic method, I will analyse whether the events featured in this ethnography can contribute to musical and artistic decentralization in the places that host them. To this end, this study focuses on the social, economic and artistic impact of festivals on local communities. As a result, this ethnography aims to support cultural decentralization in Portugal, encouraging intercultural dialogue and promoting the development of heterogeneous forms of artistic and cultural expression.
 
Keywords
Social cohesion, social responsibility, festivals, cultural decentralization, experimental music.