24a. Portugal: 1920-1974
The History of European Jazz - The Music, Musicians and Audience in Context - Francesco Martinelli
Pedro Cravinho [+ ]
Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research
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Pedro Cravinho is a Researcher in Jazz Studies at Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR) publishing on jazz and media. His thesis explores the cultural politics of jazz on television broadcasts in Portugal during the right-wing colonialist Estado Novo regime, between September 1956 and April 1974. His research interests focus on media representation and historiography, with particular interest in the political and social history of jazz diaspora during the twentieth century.
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Early years: the 1920s; The 1930s and the New State; World War II; The post-war years and the Hot Clube de Portugal; The 1950s; The 1960s; The early 1970s and the last years of the New State; Listening guide; Bibliography;