Portujaze: Jazz Cultures, Scenes and Networks in Contemporary Porto Portujaze is a one-year postdoctoral project that falls within the framework of interdisciplinary research carried out in the human and social sciences focus on jazz and improvised music, as both social and musical practices. In recent years, growing attention has been given to the jazz diaspora and its relationship to specific historical, social and political contexts (Johnson 2002, 2017, 2019; Atkins 2003; Bohlman and Plastino 2016). Nevertheless, often lost or misunderstood

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, as result of my collaboration with freelance jazz photographer, Brian Homer. As Ian Jeffrey suggests, photographs can be considered as understandable fragments, which invite their viewers’ minds to reflect about them. However, as

My first contribution as an author to eu-topías, a special edition focus on Audiovisual media and popular music, was published under the title “The ‘Black Angel’ in Lisbon: Josephine Baker challenges Salazar, live on television”. As the title suggests, this essay examines a televised performance by Josephine Baker that took place in Portugal on 29 November 1960, during the time of Portugal’s so-called New State (Estado Novo) regime. The performance included the song ‘Terra Seca’ by Ary Barroso, the lyrics

Jazz on Portuguese film: Belarmino (1964) and Alice (2005) – Two Milestones Abstract In a broad perspective on the history of Portuguese film, both Belarmino and Alice play decisive roles. If the first is an inescapable reference for understanding what Portuguese Cinema Novo (New Cinema) was and what kind of artistic rupture was taking place in the 1960’s in Portugal, the second also marks a breakup from former Portuguese film-making and a rapprochement to broader film audiences. The fact that

Jazz em Coimbra This study is the first issue of a bilingual editorial project (in Portuguese and English) dedicated to the history of jazz in Portugal, named Cadernos do Jazz em Portugal – Essays of Jazz in Portugal – and edited by Jazz Ao Centro Clube’s Educational Service. With the Cadernos de Jazz em Portugal, I aim to present the significant players and events in the process of development of jazz in Portugal throughout the Estado Novo regime (1933-1974). Este

Historical overview of the development of jazz in Portugal, in the first half of the twentieth century Abstract 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 1971. However,

My first contribution to Routledge’s Transnational Studies in Jazz Series, both, as editor advisor, and an author has been published in the Jazz and Totalitarianism (2017), edited by Bruce Johnson. My article, titled “A Kind of ‘in-between’: Jazz and Politics in Portugal (1958-1971)”, explores the use of jazz as a form of protest and a symbol of freedom during the Portuguese right-wing colonialist Estado Novo regime. A Kind of ‘in-between’: Jazz and Politics in Portugal (1958-1971) Abstract The article will investigate the