João Luís Meireles Santos Leitão da Silva (9910-2D53-18A7)

Curriculum Vitae

João Luís Meireles Santos Leitão da Silva

I am a musicologist working on popular entertainment and music in the Portuguese Empire. I am interested in the ways a mass leisure culture was created and linked to the idea of both nation and cosmopolitanism. The way technologies such as recorded sound and film interacted and shaped the urban auditory landscape under the sway of modernity is an important part of my work. An ever-changing repertoire crossed boundaries between the stage, the city's streets, and the home. Theatrical songs, urban popular music, traditional music, film music, and dance music were commodified in several media; they became part of Lisbon's everyday life, revealing a constant negotiation between local, regional, and transnational styles. This intermediality was instrumental in making popular entertainment ubiquitous.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: João Luís Meireles Santos Leitão da Silva

Citation names

Silva, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9910-2D53-18A7
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4044-9190

Education

	Degree	Classification
2012 Concluded	Music (Doutoramento) Newcastle University, United Kingdom "Music, Theatre and the Nation:the Entertainment Market in Lisbon (1865-1908)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2011/09/01 - Current	Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário)	Escola de Música Óscar da Silva, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2018/10/01 - 2022/09/30	Ser Músico em Portugal: a condição sócio-profissional dos músicos em Lisboa 1750-1985 PTDC/ART-PER/32624/2017 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31	Projecto Estratégico - UI 472 - 2011-2012 PEst-OE/EAT/UI0472/2011 Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2008/09/01 - 2011/08/31	MUSIC, THEATRE AND THE NATION : THE ENTERTAINMENT MARKET IN LISBON 1865-1908 SFRH/BD/38712/2007	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2005/09/01 - 2008/02/29	O Fado no Século XX: uma abordagem multidisciplinar ao património cultural intangível português. POCI/EAT/60614/2004 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/21	Ser Músico em Portugal: a condição sócio-profissional dos músicos em Lisboa (1750-1985)/ To be a musician in Portugal: the social and professional condition of musicians in Lisbon (1750-1985) PTDC/ART-PER/32624/2017 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Silva, João. Entertaining Lisbon: Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century. Oxford University Press. 2016.
Book chapter	Silva, João. "Portugal and Mechanical Music in the Early Phonographic Era: An Intermedial Approach". In Phonographic Encounters: Mapping Transnational Cultures of Sound, 1890-1945, 81-99. Oxford, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2022. Published Joao Silva. "Portugal, Mechanised Entertainment, and the Second Industrial Revolution". In Music and the Second Industrial Revolution. 2019. Published Silva, João. "Coming to grips with modernity: Lisbon’s Soundscape from 1864 to 1908". In Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300–1918. Routledge, 2017. Silva, João. "The Portuguese canconeta and early phonography". In Contributions to the History of the Record Industry. 2016. Silva, João; Losa, Leonor; Antunes de Oliveira, Gonçalo. "Teatro, musica e danca: entreter o cidadao no Portugal da Primeira Republica: O caso da revista De Capote e Lenco". In Danccar para a Repu´blica. 2010.
Journal article	Silva, J.; Cannady, K.; Stock, J.P.J.. "Editors’ Introduction". Journal of World Popular Music 11 1 (2024): 1-2. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85206842555&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1558/jwpm.31240 Joao Silva. "Early Portuguese recordings for The Gramophone Company (1900—1908) and the establishment of a phonographic market in Portugal". Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/cmib.88444. 10.5209/cmib.88444 João Silva. "Mechanical instruments and everyday life: the player piano in Portugal". Popular Music 40 1 (2021): 58-74. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114302100012X. 10.1017/S026114302100012X Silva, João. "A edicao de musica impressa e a mediatizacao do fado: o caso do "Fado do 31"". Etno-Folk: Revista Galega de Etnomusicoloxi´a (2008):
Thesis / Dissertation	Silva, João Luís Meireles Santos Leitão da. "O diário A Revolução de Setembro (1840-1857) : música, poder e construção social de realidade em Portugal nos meados do século XIX". Master, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/126236.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2018/06/15	Commodifying sound in Portugal in the early phonographic era	Early Recording Technologies: Transnational Practices, History and Heritage
2018/06/01	‘The quintet started playing a noisy jazz piece with alacrity:’ Sounds in Lisbon during the First Portuguese Republic.	Iberian Sound Cultures, Institute of Modern Languages Research
2018/02/02	The Listening Flaneur: Walking in Lisbon at the Turn of the 19th and the 20th Centuries	Mapping the Musical City

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2014/01/01 - Current	Gesellschaft für Historische Tonträger
2009/01/01 - Current	International Association for the Study of Popular Music

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2023/06/01 - Current	Journal of World Popular Music (2052-4900)