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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]