The 12th Meeting ‘Music, Critical Theory and Communication’ will be held at NOVA FCSH (Auditorium B2) on September 27 and 28.

The programme is organised into five thematic panels: I – Music in the digital era; II – Imaginaries of Brazilian popular music; III – Musical folds; IV – Music, culture and society in twentieth-century Portugal; V – Musical immaterialities: poetry, memory, ecology.

The keynote lecture, entitled ‘Musical Mirror of the World: The Popular Song of Brazil’, will be given by Henry Burnett. In addition to the lecture, the researcher and composer from the Federal University of São Paulo will give a recital (Saturday at 5 pm), where he will perform some of his songs and present his book. The meeting also includes a round table discussion with Paulo Ferreira de Castro and Paula Gomes-Ribeiro about ‘Callas and Her Doubles’ by João Pedro Cachopo. Click here to see the programme.

The meeting is open to the public. Everyone is welcome.