Improvisation in Brazil (REF2021 Portfolio)
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 165541410
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component portfolio
- Open access status
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- Month
- September
- Year
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This e-folio provides insights into the practice of free music improvisation in Brazil, via a study involving performance research and interviews with musicians, carried out between January and June 2014. Schroeder resided in Brazil for this period of work to gain an embedded and critical understanding of a specific community of Brazilian improvisers.
Schroeder’s output contains both practice-based and theoretical components. A primary contribution is 'Barely Cool' (2015), a CD of free improvised music recorded at Rio de Janeiro's Audiorebel Studio. The CD, released on the pfMENTUM label (USA), is the outcome of an encounter between Schroeder (saxophone) and two Brazilian improvisers from the wider study, Marcos Campello (guitar) and Renato Gody (drums). It has been disseminated as a physical copy in Europe, USA and Brazil and through broadcasts, including on Taran's Free Jazz Hour (Radio Panik, Brussels) and Radio MEC (Rio).
The CD is supported by a collection of 48 edited interviews, offering views of Brazilian musicians working in the field of music improvisation. A central focus of the study was to reflect on the ways in which musicians think about the practice of free improvisation and the teaching of it. Interviews include musicians from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), University of São Paulo (USP), Federal University in Bahia (UFBA), and from Federal University in Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (UFMG).
The e-folio also includes a peer-reviewed article, published in the International Journal of Education & the Arts, which provides an in-depth insight into the methodological approach for the study, while giving an overview of the political, cultural and social environment in Brazil during the research. In this article, Schroeder reflects on the ways in which the interviewed musicians think about performing free improvisation, as well as the teaching of this practice.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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