Protest Song Observatory (OCP) is an organization resulting from the partnership between the Municipality of Grândola, a promoter, the José Afonso Association, the Musical Society Fraternidade Operária Grandolense, and the institutes of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa Center for Studies in Sociology and Musical Aesthetics (CESEM),... Read More

In February 14th of 2005, Youtube was founded and grew to become the biggest online platform for video sharing. In these past 15 years, billions of audiovisual contents have been produced, shared, transformed, downloaded and consumed by billions of users worldwide, placing this website as a central hub for their daily lives while browsing the... Read More

Among the dates to be remembered in the history of Brazilian music, October 16, 1920, records the death of the composer and professor Alberto Nepomuceno of the National Music Institute. To celebrate the legacy he left, in the year that marks the centenary of his death, the UFPel Interdisciplinary Studies in Music Sciences Research Group,... Read More

Marina Abramović, ‘the grandmother of performance art’, has been fascinated by the character and work of soprano Maria Callas since her childhood. As time went on, Marina realized that the two of them have a lot in common. The result of this affection is Abramović’s opera project 7 Deaths of Maria Callas about the famous diva and... Read More

Online Workshop in Composition organized by Elsa De Luca (CESEM) and Carlos Caires (ESML) PROGRAM 9:30 REIMAGINING THE OLD HISPANIC LITURGY Litha Efthymiou (University of West London) Dr Efthymiou will discuss her musical compositions that emerged from working within an interdisciplinary team at the University of Bristol between the years 2013-17. These works take as... Read More