Interdisciplinary meeting about soundscapes that aims to contribute to a definition and thought about historical sound spaces.

II Historical Soundscapes Meeting

The notion of soundscapes, which is being increasingly referred to in international musicological circles, makes it possible to understand musical activity that takes place in a particular area from a wide-ranging contextual perspective, unlike a view centred on a composer or restricted group of composers. It enables us to reconstruct contexts, circuits and movement, and to map out the presence of music and musician, taking music as a social, political and cultural activity and not merely artistic.

The urban level is particularly suitable for observing the social networks that form musical activity. The role that the arts perform in the building of a social identity has been studied in recent years, both in the case of music and that of the visual arts. The historiography of the urban phenomenon has reformulated the concept of city in such a manner that social and cultural practice is as important as the notion of use of space and even socioeconomic structures. The research thread of urban musicology is marked by its interdisciplinary character, contributions from various research areas being welcome. As well as musical activities in themselves, what they represent and their sources are also of interest; as are performers and directors; professionals and amateurs; times and spaces; ceremonies and spontaneous practices, because all of these elements contribute to making up a soundscape, an identity in terms of sound.

The urban aspect with respect to the musical activity of the churches, convents and other religious institutions, and in the squares and theatres, creates a particularly rich ‘soundscape’ in the case of Évora, Lisbon, Coimbra and other European musical centres such as Madrid, Seville, Paris, and even other cities such as Salvador da Bahia or Rio de Janeiro. Following on from projects of this kind undertaken in Andalusia (Seville and Granada), the project proposed in relation to Évora is centred on charting as many historical sound events as possible in the city of Évora from 1540 to 1910.

Besides works about Évora, this Meeting aims to promote and articulate works about other landscapes, spaces and cities. It intends also to promote the interdisciplinary work in articulation with important areas for the definition and thought about historical soundscapes like Architecture, Sociology, Acoustic, Visual Arts or Philosophy, among others.

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🔗 Call for papers

Relevant Informations:

Official languages of the Symposium are Portuguese, English and Spanish
Article presentation proposals (20 min.) containing title, name of author(s), small bio(s) (max. 150 words), and abstract (max. 350 words), should be sent in a Word document until May 30th 2019 to evorasoundscapes@gmail.com
Acceptance of proposals will be announced by June 20th
Registration of accepted proposals will take place between July 10-30 upon payment of a registration fee of 50€ (master and phd students – 20€) – Instructions HERE
Further information and details will be announced in due time in this page.

General inquires: evorasoundscapes@gmail.com

Organising Committee

Antónia Fialho Conde (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
Filipe Mesquita de Oliveira (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
Luís Henriques (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
Rita Faleiro (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
Rodrigo Teodoro de Paula ( FCSH – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)
Vanda de Sá (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)

Scientific Committee

Antónia Fialho Conde | CIDEHUS Universidade de Évora
António Camões Gouveia | CHAM FCSH NOVA
Clara Bejarano Pellicer | Universidade de Sevilha
Cristina Fernandes | INET-md FCSH NOVA
David Cranmer | CESEM FCSH NOVA
Maria de Fátima Nunes | IHC – CEHFCI-UÉ Universidade de Évora
Filipe Mesquita de Oliveira | CESEM Universidade de Évora
Juan Ruiz Jiménez | Catedra de Música. I.E.S. “Generalife”, Granada
Olga Magalhães | CIDEHUS Universidade de Évora
Rodrigo Teodoro de Paula | CESEM FCSH NOVA
Rui Vieira Nery | INET-md FCSH NOVA; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Vanda de Sá | CESEM Universidade de Évora