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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes (IA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Virginia de Almeida Bessa is a coolaborating researcher and permanent professor at the Music Postgaduate Program of Unicamp, where she coordinates the research projetc titled "Transatlantic musical connections: musical theatre touring companies in São Paulo (1914-1934)", funded by FAPESP. She has a B.A. in History and Music, a M.A. in Social History and a double PhD in Social History and Romanic Studies from University of São Paulo and Paris Nanterre Unviersity. From 2023 to 2024, she was postdoctoral fellow from CNPq at the HIstory Department of the University of São Paulo. From 2016 to 2021, she was postdoctoral fellow from Fapesp at IEB-USP, including a one year post-doctoral internship at EHESS/Mondes Américains, in Paris (2019-2020). Her work focuses in History and Music, especially on the following subjects: Popular Music, Cultural History, Musical Theater, Sound Culture, History of São Paulo. She is the author of the book "A escuta singular de Pixinguinha" (Alameda Editorial, 2010), awarded with the Funarte Prize of Music Criticism, and co-editor of the book "Histórias das Músicas no Brasil" (Anppom, 2023). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project is linked to the proposal to create the research line "Global History of Musical Theatre", whose objective is to promote research that relates the musical, the historical-cultural and the transnational dimensions of those theatrical genres in which music is part of the dramatic action. Although musical theatre has already been consolidated as a research line in the Institute …
This proposal is linked to the research project Transatlantic musical connections: São Paulo in the history of foreign musical theater companies (1914-1934). Its aim is to retrace the history of the Italian Union of Operetta Artists, with which several operetta companies that toured São Paulo in the 1920s was associated. From research into primary and bibliographic sources, we hope to und…
This proposal is focused on investigative journalism and the dissemination of the activities and research results of the scientific project Transatlantic Musical Connections: Musical Theatre Touring Companies in São Paulo (1914-1934), conducted at the Institute of Arts of Unicamp with funding from FAPESP (Young Researcher Project, Process No. 2023/04678-3). The proposal includes: 1) crea…
This proposal is linked to the research project Transatlantic musical connections: São Paulo on the route of musical theatre touring companies. Its main achievement will be to feed the database Teatro Musicado em São Paulo (1914-1934) with information on the Spanish and Spanish-American musical theater companies that visited São Paulo during the period under analysis. The research aims to…
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Until little known and little studied, the musical theater consumed in São Paulo during the early decades of the twentieth century is a privileged object for the investigation of urban culture of this period and its contradictions. Because of its close connections to the cultural and social changes experienced in the state's capital of São Paulo, this kind of spectacle has become a stage …
This proposal aims to deepen the study on the presence of Italian theatrical companies, especially those of operetta and sceneggiata, in São Paulo city between 1914 and 1934. Developing one of the aspects of the postdoctoral project ongoing in Brazil, whose goal is to analyze various disputes around musical theater in São Paulo, the objective of the internship abroad is to gather informat…
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