Sounds of the World - The Worlds of Sound: Ivan Vilela and the viola caipira

Tracklist:
0:09 Viola Quebrada (by Maria de Andrade)
7:08 A Força do Boi
14:32 Paisagens
22:24 O Castelo dos Mouros
30:56 Armorial

Concert for the 10th anniversary of the UNESCO Chair on Transcultural Music Studies at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar

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The Brazilian artist Ivan Vilela plays the ten-string guitar "viola caipira". With its sound and repertoire, the viola caipira symbolizes the culture of southeastern Brazil. Ivan Vilela, who teaches at the University of São Paulo, is one of the most important virtuosos of the instrument. He has researched its history and developed its playing techniques.

As a specific profile of a broadly understood musicology, Transcultural Music Studies approaches music within social processes and actual cultural contexts. The aim is not only to understand what music is but why it is, regardless from its place of origin or historical affiliation. Research is highly interdisciplinary and project oriented, since the practitioners, whose music is to be studied, are involved by collaborating in the definition of the focus of research. Working in related fields of study is required, as well as the use of empirical methods. Transcultural Music Studies is organized according to four main areas: Cultural Theories, Musicology/Music Research, Archiving, and Projects.
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Recorded on November 29th, 2019 | Weimar, Festsaal Fürstenhaus