Between the Marimba Thumb Piano and the Grand Piano: Musicians and Black Musicalities in 19th-century Brazil with Dr. Rafael Galante

Between the Marimba Thumb Piano and the Grand Piano: Musicians and Black Musicalities in 19th-century Brazil
March 10, 2021
11:10AM - 12:30PM
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2021-03-10 11:10:00 2021-03-10 12:30:00 Between the Marimba Thumb Piano and the Grand Piano: Musicians and Black Musicalities in 19th-century Brazil with Dr. Rafael Galante On Wednesday, March 10, Rafael Galante will present his lecture, "Between the Marimba Thumb Piano and the Grand Piano: Musicians and Black Musicalities in 19th-century Brazil". This lecture is the eighth installment of the Afro-Brazilian Arts and Activism Lecture Series by CLAS. The event is FREE and open to the public! Rafael Galante is a historian and ethnomusicologist. He holds a Masters and Ph.D. in Social History from the University of São Paulo, in Brazil, where he is currently conducting his research titled: “Musical Iconography of the Black Atlantic: Brazil – Central and Southern Africa, an analytic inventory (16th to 19th centuries)”. In 2014, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Portuguese & Spanish at Smith College in Massachusetts and served as a visiting researcher in the Department of History at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, in Maputo, Mozambique during the second semester of 2017. He has conducted field research on music, religion, and popular culture in traditional quilombo communities of Brazil, Cuba, and Mozambique, always focused on the African cultural presence in the historic processes which formed the musical cultures and Afro-diasporic identities in the Atlantic sphere. Wednesday, March 10, 202111:10 AM - 12:30 PM (horário Brasília 13:10-14:30) Zoom Link: go.osu.edu/CLASAfroBrazil Meeting ID: 940 5025 4422 Password: 183273 This event has been cross-posted from the Center for Latin American Studies website. Visit the OSU Center for Latin American Studies website.*If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Isis Barra Costa. Requests made one week in advance of the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.* Zoom America/New_York public

On Wednesday, March 10, Rafael Galante will present his lecture, "Between the Marimba Thumb Piano and the Grand Piano: Musicians and Black Musicalities in 19th-century Brazil". This lecture is the eighth installment of the Afro-Brazilian Arts and Activism Lecture Series by CLAS. The event is FREE and open to the public!

Rafael Galante

Rafael Galante is a historian and ethnomusicologist. He holds a Masters and Ph.D. in Social History from the University of São Paulo, in Brazil, where he is currently conducting his research titled: “Musical Iconography of the Black Atlantic: Brazil – Central and Southern Africa, an analytic inventory (16th to 19th centuries)”. In 2014, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Portuguese & Spanish at Smith College in Massachusetts and served as a visiting researcher in the Department of History at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, in Maputo, Mozambique during the second semester of 2017. He has conducted field research on music, religion, and popular culture in traditional quilombo communities of Brazil, Cuba, and Mozambique, always focused on the African cultural presence in the historic processes which formed the musical cultures and Afro-diasporic identities in the Atlantic sphere. 

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

11:10 AM - 12:30 PM (horário Brasília 13:10-14:30) 

Zoom Link: go.osu.edu/CLASAfroBrazil 

Meeting ID: 940 5025 4422 

Password: 183273 

This event has been cross-posted from the Center for Latin American Studies website. Visit the OSU Center for Latin American Studies website.

*If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Isis Barra Costa. Requests made one week in advance of the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.*