KISMIF Conference 2020

EXHIBITION | ‘O princípio do fim [The beginning of the end]’ (17 July – 7 August 2016)

Artist: Miguel Januário. | Price: Free.   Description ‘The Beginning of the end’ hits us with a staggering reflection: a composition seated in a time and place, guiding the visitor into a contemporary – free, […]

Jul, 07 · in Exhibitions,Programme

GIG | Victor Torpedo Karaoke + Wipeout Beat (15 July 2016)

Price: 5 euros [tickets on sale at Salão Brazil]. Description Victor Torpedo (Tédio Boys, The Parkinsons, Blood Safari, Tijuana Bibles) is one of the most charismatic and talented Portuguese musicians. And you can replace the word musician […]

Jul, 07 · in Gigs,Programme

KEYLECTURE | ‘Identities/Alterities. Performing Music, Performing Ourselves’, by Antoine Hennion

Abstract Musical works are not data inside a given space, that musicologists and sociologists could analyse, each in their own way: they produce their own time and space instead of taking place into them. Ever […]

Jun, 03

KEYLECTURE | ‘From Rock’n’Roll High School to LISTEN: Past and present feminist music activism in Melbourne’, by Catherine Strong

Abstract This paper will examine two waves of grassroots feminist activity in the Melbourne music scene. Rock’n’Roll High School and ‘Grot Grrrl’ adopted ideas from Riot Grrrl as a way to claim space for women […]

Jun, 03

KEYLECTURE | ‘Digital Culture, Videoclipes and “Peripheral” Music Scenes in Brazil’, by Simone Pereira de Sá

Abstract During the last years, the top positions of the most watched videoclipes at Youtube in Brazil have been occupied not by the worldly well-known genres such as bossa nova, MPB and samba; but by […]

Jun, 03

KEYLECTURE | ‘Looking Backwards: Route 666 in the Rear View Mirror’, by Gina Arnold

What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It’s the too-huge world vaulting us and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward […]

Jun, 03

KEYLECTURE | ‘Fangrrrling Feminism: Letting go of some hang-ups’, by Lucy Robinson

Abstract In 2013 The Fales Library in New York published a selection of its holdings from The Riot Grrrl collection.  The archive maps, and also reproduces, the shape and scope of the scene. The collection […]

Jun, 03

KEYLECTURE | ‘Songs About Fucking: Southern Studios and the Construction of Punk’s Subversive Sonic Signature’, by Samantha Bennett

  Yes Sir, I Will. I mean, what record producer or studio owner in their right mind endorses something like that? – Steve Ignorant Abstract In Noise – The Political Economy of Music, Jacques Attali described […]

Jun, 03

KEYLECTURE | ‘DIY Music scenes: Space, place and memory’, by Andy Bennett

Abstract Since the beginning of the 21st century, new perspectives in the cultural study of popular music have begun to emerge inspired by what could be termed the ‘memory boom’ in popular music production, performance […]

Jun, 02

‘Love Save the Dinner’ (KISMIF Dinner)

On July 21th, 2016, all participants of KISMIF Conference 2016 can gather at the official Dinner of KISMIF Conference. The KISMIF Conference Dinner will be held at InterContinental Hotel – Palácio das Cardosas. The menu will […]

Jun, 02

KISMIF Lunches

Everyone who has participated in previous editions of KISMIF Conference certainly has not forgotten KISMIF Lunches. Provided by Padaria Ribeiro, a century-old company from Porto, KISMIF Lunches are characterized by their excellent quality (and quantity!). The menus have […]

Jun, 02

Marion Leonard

Marion Leonard is Senior Lecturer in the School of Music and member of the Institute of Popular Music. She is author of Gender in the Music Industry (Ashgate, 2007) and co-editor of The Beat Goes […]

May, 17

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