Lightning Talks: Interculturalism in Brazilian Music

Name: Lightning Talks: Interculturalism in Brazilian Music
Start: 2025-11-07T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Minneapolis Minneasota

Schedule

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Minneapolis Minneasota | Brooklyn Center, MN

SMT Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries Interest Group Annual Meeting
Call for Lightning Talks: Interculturalism in Brazilian Music
Dear Colleagues,
The Global Interculturalism and Music Peripheries Interest Group (SMT) is inviting proposals for its meeting at the 2025 AMS/SMT Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota (November 6-9) on music in Brazil.
Brazil is a country divided into regions with overlapping musical histories, interests, and challenges. Elements of Indigenous, African and European musics are synthesized in a constantly expanding variety of new forms. The large population, geographic size, and ethnic diversity have contributed to a distinctive musical culture influential throughout the world, especially among Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) musicians and audiences.
We invite proposals for presentations in a 12-minute short format.
Thematic areas may include—but are not limited to—the following:
• Music Theory: Inheritance and Perspectives
• Reception and Impact of European and North American music theories in Brazil
• Selected Brazilian works reflecting local political influences
• African musical retentions in Brazilian music
• Combination of Indigenous, African and European elements in Brazilian music
• Impact of Brazilian thinking and musical languages in other regions of the world
• Consideration of the political-social context at large in analyses of Brazilian works
• Topics, narrativity, and intertextuality in Brazilian music
• Music theory pedagogy in Brazil
• Theory and analysis of nationalistic repertoires or Brazilian popular music
The session will feature five 12-minute short presentations followed by a 20-minute discussion during which the audience may ask questions of any of the panelists.
Please email abstracts of up to 250 words, together with a brief bio of up to150 words, to [email protected] and [email protected]. In your email, please include the subject line “SMT Global Interculturalism Proposal 2025”. The deadline for submission is Monday, July 7, 2025. Accepted proposers will be notified by Monday, September 8, 2025.
Accepted speakers must register and attend the 2025 SMT Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Sincerely,
Desirée Mayr and Aaron M Carter-Ényì
P.S. If you would like to join the interest group, please sign up for our mailing list (https://groups.google.com/u/0/g/smt-global-new-music-interest-group) or send an email to co-chairs.