As noites de música brasileira na Baixa do Porto

Abstract

This article is the result of the author’s master’s thesis completed at the University of Aveiro. Based on an ethnomusicological orientation in which I emphasize my role as a musician and researcher, from 2014 to 2017 I conducted fieldwork together with musicians who took part in Brazilian music events in night bars located in downtown Oporto. With the intention of overcoming a static understanding of Brazilian music (often linked to musical pieces), with a view to an approach that elucidates the dynamism of performance practices and the roles played by individual musicians, in this work I conceive of Brazilian music as a field in transformation, in which musicians, audiences, performance spaces, memories, musical abilities, sonorities, imaginations, social negotiation processes and resistance strategies against the large consortiums of global musical production continuously interact.