4 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Ethnomusicology / Anthropology of Music, São Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil (2017)

Selection of candidates for 4 (four) Post-doctoral Fellowships in Ethnomusicology/Anthropology of Music. The Fellowships are linked to the FAPESP Thematic Project 2016/05318-7 "Local Musicking - New pathways for ethnomusicology". Two fellowships, supervised by Professor Suzel A Reily, will be based at the State University of Campinas Arts Institute (IA-Unicamp); Two fellowships, supervised by Professor Rose Satiko Hikiji, will be based at the University of São Paulo Department of Anthropology (FFLCH-USP).

1) Summary of the Thematic Project:

This Thematic Project (TP) aims to investigate how music produces locality and how it is produced by locality. By focusing on the locality of the musical activity, we call attention to the role of music in articulating this context, regardless of the origin of the style in question. Localities are dynamic settings; they are points of continuous encounter between people, ideas, practices, technologies, and objects that converge in the locality over time. The specificity of a locality derives more from its relationships to other localities than from its isolation. Here, we aim to document how musical engagement articulates with the social interactions that occur during musicking, whether the participants are amateurs or professionals. The project, therefore, focuses on the investigation of the relations between music and locality in terms of the people involved in musicking.
TP Subthemes:

- Musicking and the production of locality;
- Localities, encounters and connections in local musicking;
- Learning, transmission and preparation;
- Technologies of local musicking.

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