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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
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
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Silva, João. Entertaining Lisbon: Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century. Oxford University Press. 2016.
Book chapter
  1. 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
  2. Joao Silva. "Portugal, Mechanised Entertainment, and the Second Industrial Revolution". In Music and the Second Industrial Revolution. 2019.
    Published
  3. 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.
  4. Silva, João. "The Portuguese canconeta and early phonography". In Contributions to the History of the Record Industry. 2016.
  5. 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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  1. 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)