Institute of Ethnomusicology - Centre of Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md)

The Institute of Ethnomusicology – Centre for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md) is a research unit built on the integration of arts, humanities and sciences.

Founded in 1995, INET-md works with communities, scholars, artists, policymakers and academic and non-academic partners to promote democratic and decolonising constructions of knowledge.

The achievements of INET-md encompass groundbreaking ethnographic and historical work on expressive practices of music and dance; studies of their manifestation and preservation; attending to political implications and worldwide interconnections; explorations of dance and music as embodied social practices; the study of formal and non-formal pedagogical approaches in these areas; experimentation in artistic research; and acoustic profiling of musical instruments. Headquartered at NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA FCSH), INET-md has branches at the University of Aveiro (DeCA-UA), the University of Lisbon (FMH-ULisboa) and Polytechnic of Porto (ESE-P.Porto), as well as one branch in formation at Polytechnic University of Lisbon (IPL).

Goals:

INET-md’s is committed with the development of research and creation in the fields of music and dance, in collaboration with various interlocutors and institutions. Its main goals are:

• To carry out transdisciplinary research on music and dance;
• To develop collaborative partnerships with local groups and communities, artists, policy makers and national and international institutions, towards a democratic and decolonial construction of knowledge;
• To promote research that addresses issues related with colonial pasts and post-colonial contexts, specially in countires and regions historically connected to Portugal;
• To consolidate artistic research on music and dance performance and composition, through practice based perspectives;
• To expand research in sound production and perception based on physical and psycho-acoustic principles;
• To consolidate audiovisual archiving and making research sources, data and results available in online open access platforms.

INET-md’s activities are developed through its six research groups and four thematic lines:

Research Groups

• Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies (coordination: Filippo Bonini Baraldi)
• Historical and Cultural Studies in Music (coordination: Cristina Fernandes)
• Dance Studies (coordination: Elisabete Monteiro)
• Musical Acoustics and Sound Studies (coordination: Vincent Debut)
• Creation, Performance and Artistic Research (coordination: Henrique Portovedo)
• Education and Music in the Community (coordination: Graça Boal-Palheiros)

Thematic Lines

• Digital and Technological Performativities (coordination: Alfonso Benetti, Ana Luísa Veloso, Filipe Lopes)
• Heritage(s), Archives and Museums (coordination: Alcina Cortez, Edward Ayres de Abreu, Maria João Albuquerque, Susana Sardo)
• Power, Politics and Activism (coordination: Alix Didier Sarrouy)
• Studies on Women, Gender and Sexuality (coordination: Inês Thomas Almeida, Marco Roque de Freitas)