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(2019) “Everyday jazz life: A photographic project on contemporary jazz musicians’ lives in Birmingham”

ARTICLE with Brian Homer (2019) “Everyday jazz life: A photographic project on contemporary jazz musicians’ lives in Birmingham” This co-authored article examines fragments of a local jazz scene through photographs. It is the outcome of a collaborative pilot research project entitled ‘Everyday Jazz Life: A Photographic Project on Contemporary Jazz Musicians’ Lives in Birmingham’, that took place at Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (UK), as a result of my collaboration with freelance jazz photographer, Brian Homer. As Ian

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(2019) The ‘Black Angel’ in Lisbon: Josephine Baker challenges Salazar, live on television

ARTICLE (2019) “The ‘Black Angel’ in Lisbon: Josephine Baker Challenges Salazar, Live on Television. My first contribution as an author to Eu-topías, a journal on interculturality, communication, and European Studies, was in a special edition focused on audiovisual media and popular music, with the article, “The ‘Black Angel’ in Lisbon: Josephine Baker challenges Salazar, live on television”. As the title suggests, my article examines a televised performance by Josephine Baker that took place in Portugal on 29 November 1960, during the

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(2014) “Jazz on Portuguese film: Belarmino (1964) and Alice (2005)—Two Milestones”

ARTICLE with José Dias (2014) “Jazz on Portuguese film: Belarmino (1964) and Alice (2005)—Two Milestones” This article marks my first collaboration in academic publications. It brings together two Portuguese emerging jazz scholars: me, with a deep interest in the historical development of jazz in Portugal during the New State (Estado Novo) regime, and its distinct media representations. And my dear colleague, José Dias, with a focus on contemporary Portugal. In a broad historical perspective on Portuguese cinema, both Belarmino (1964)

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(2016) “Historical overview of the development of jazz in Portugal in the first half of the twentieth century”

ARTICLE (2016) “Historical overview of the development of jazz in Portugal in the first half of the twentieth century” The principal aim of this article is to give a historical overview of the development of jazz in Portugal during the first half of the twentieth century. As a matter of fact, little is known in the international jazz research community about Portuguese jazz historiography. Perhaps the best-known jazz-related episode was Charlie Haden’s arrest by the Portuguese political police in November

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