Conference Presentation: From Sambista to Song: what an unpublished 86-year old sambista reveals about songwriting. (06/01/2017)
Autor: Leandro Maia | Publicado: 2017-01-19T08:23:00-02:00

Conference Presentation: From Sambista to Song: what an unpublished 86-year old sambista reveals about songwriting. (06/01/2017): Leandro Maia, Bath Spa University&nbsp;From&nbsp;Sambista&nbsp;to Song: what an unpublished 86-year old&nbsp;sambista&nbsp;reveals about songwriting.



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2017
 started with good vibes and hard working. Between January 5th and 7th I
 had the honour of presenting a paper related to my thesis at the School
 of Music and Performing Arts, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK 
during the BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference: Exploring Musical 
Practice.





2017
 começou com tudo. Logo no início do ano tive a honra de participar da 
Conferência do Fórum Britânico de Etnomusicologia e da Real Academia de 
Música organizado pela Canterbury Christ Church University. Título 
do trabalho: Da Sambista à canção: o que uma inédita sambista de 86 anos
 revela sobre composição de canções. Estou falando sobre a maravilhosa 
Dona Conceição, da cidade de Pelotas/RS, que já compôs mais de mil 
sambas.





Leandro Maia, Bath Spa University&nbsp;

From&nbsp;Sambista&nbsp;to Song: what an unpublished 86-year old&nbsp;sambista&nbsp;reveals about songwriting.&nbsp;

This
work presents songs by the Brazilian songwriter Conceição Teixeira 
(1930-) in the context of the research ‘Poetics of&nbsp;song: 
songwriting&nbsp;habitus&nbsp;in the creative process of Brazilian songwriting’. 
Having composed more than one thousand sambas without receiving formal 
music education, Teixeira offers an extraordinary opportunity to 
approach the creative process regarding aspects such as informal 
learning, intuition and tacit knowledge. Considering the inherent 
interdisciplinarity of the popular song genre, the research on 
Teixeira’s songs combines ethnography and song analysis to understanding
how a songwriting&nbsp;habitus&nbsp;is manifested through the identification of 
music dispositions found in her work.&nbsp;

The
presentation is characterised by a 20-minute recital-lecture in solo 
performance (voice, percussion and guitar) including a demonstration of 
the&nbsp;transcreational&nbsp;procedures used in the translation of songs. The 
reasons behind this innovative format are related to the opportunity of 
joining music performance, music analysis and field research reports 
into the same presentation, avoiding separation between theory and 
practice. The possibility of having the feedback and real-time 
participation of the audience in a dialogical perspective offers 
additional motivation for this proposal.





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Biography: Singer, songwriter and senior lecturer at Universidade Federalde Pelotas (UFPEL/Brazil). Leandro Maia has released the albums 
Palavreio (2008), Mandinho (2012) and Suite Maria Bonita e Outras 
Veredas (2014) and has written music for theatre, dance and movies. 
Awarded as the best singer in 'Premio Brasil-Sul de Música' (2013) and 
'Premio Açorianos de Música' (2015), Leandro was granted with the first 
'Prêmio Ibermúsicas' for popular song composition, conceived by the 
Organization of Ibero-American States (2014-2015). He is currently a PhD
candidate in Songwriting at Bath Spa University with research funded by
the Capes Foundation/Ministry of Education of Brazil.&nbsp;

Session:&nbsp;5A: Creative Process&nbsp;

Keywords: Samba, songwriting, creative process, lecture-recital