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PhD project: “It's not just a New Lisbon. It's a New Luso-Afro-Euro-Brazilian sound world. Identity reconfigurations and repairs."
Reference: 24.04059.BD
Scientific area: Doctorate in performative arts and moving image
Supervisor: Jorge Ramos do Ó (Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto da Educação); Simone Pereira de Sá (Universidade Federal Fluminense - Brasil); Paula Guerra (Universidade do Porto – Instituto de Sociologia)
Timeline: June 2025 - June 2029
Abstract: The artistic-musical-cultural-creative scenes based in Greater Lisbon and developed by descendants of generations who experienced the processes of decolonisation have gained undeniable prominence. Through music, these scenes have asserted hybrid identities that question citizenship, belonging, and historical reparations. A New Lisbon was born. In recent years, the Brazilian artistic community in Portugal has grown in size, influence, and engagement. Simultaneously, in Brazil, there is increasing interest in Afro-Portuguese music. All at once, music — through its representations and practitioners — reinvents Africa, Portugal, and Brazil, exposing the complexities of diasporic identities. From April 1974 onwards, this project seeks to contribute to the deepening, development, and demystification of the debate surrounding these scenes as networked spaces of identity, political, artistic, and media intersections. With a comparative and transatlantic profile (Cape Verde, Angola, Portugal, Brazil), and based on a qualitative methodology involving extended case studies, the project aims to explain and understand these cultural products, actors, and shared contexts — recognising them as forms of expression, communication, and diasporic socio-political manifestation, which are crucial to addressing contemporary Luso-Afro-Euro-Brazilian identities.
End beneficiaries/target population: CPLP Scientific Community; CPLP Researchers; CPLP Artistic-Musical Fabric
