Faculty Member, CESEM - Research Center in Sociology and Aesthetics of Music
Professor (Professor Catedrático)
About
Main research areas: Sociology of Music, Philosophy of Music, Aesthetics of Music, Music and Literature, Music and Politics, Theory and Praxis of Opera and/or Music-Theatre (Musiktheater). Strong link to Critical Theory, especially Theodor W. Adorno, but also Walter Benjamin. Research oriented towards a holistic approach to music as a social praxis.
"The social in music is understood as communication. Socio-communicative systems not only give the framework to music – to its production, performance, mediation, reception and corresponding strategies of encoding and decoding – but also are immanent to it, or, in other words, to forms of life in which ‘music’ or ‘musical performance’ take place. Any music only exists – notably for the Sociology of Music – where it emerges as a socio-communicative system."
"O social na música é o comunicativo. Os sistemas sócio-comunicativos não só enquadram a música – a sua produção, praxis de execução, mediação, recepção e correspondentes estratégias de codificação e descodificação – como são também imanentes à própria música, ou, por outras palavras, às formas de vida em que a ‘música’ ou o ‘comportamento musical’ se realizam. Qualquer música só existe – desde logo, para a Sociologia da Música – quando se manifesta como um sistema sócio-comunicativo."
"Das Soziale in der Musik wird als ein Kommunikatives verstanden. Soziokommunikative Systeme geben nicht nur den Rahmen für die Musik ab – für deren Produktion, Aufführungspraxis, Vermittlung, Rezeption, und für die Kodierungs- und Dekodierungstrategien, die dazu gehören –, sondern sind der Musik selbst immanent oder, in anderen Worten, den Lebensformen, in denen ‘Musik’ bzw. ‘musikalisches Verhalten’ sich vollzieht. Jede Musik existiert nur – nicht zuletzt für die Musiksoziologie –, indem sie als ein soziokommunikatives System erscheint."
(Mário Vieira de Carvalho, ‘Denken ist Sterben’. Sozialgeschichte des Opernhauses Lissabon, Kassel / Basel / New York / etc.: Bärenreiter, 1999: 10)
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