Salwa EL-Shawan Castelo-Branco. Professor Emerita of Ethnomusicology, founder and President Emerita of the Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. She received her doctorate from Columbia University, taught at New York University (1979-1982), was visiting professor at Columbia University, Princeton University; Tinker Professor at Chicago University and Overseas Visiting Scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge University. Carried out field research in Portugal, Egypt and Oman resulting in publications on: cultural politics, musical nationalism, identity, music media, modernity, heritage,  and music and conflict. Main publications include: Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain, co-editor with Matthew Machin-Autenrieth and Samuel Llano, Illinois University Press (2023); Transforming Ethnomusicology (co-editor with Beverly Diamond, Oxford University Press (2021) which received the Ellen Koskoff Prize of the Soceity for Ethnomusicology (2024); Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. With Susana Moreno Fernàndez. Global Music Series, Oxford University Press  (2019);  “Sustainability, Agency and the Ecologies of Music Heritage in Alentejo, Portugal” In (eds.) Music, Communities and Sustainability: Developing Policies and Practices, edited by Anthony  Seeger and Huib Schippers, 177 – 195, 2022. New York: Oxford University Press; “The Politics and Ethics of Heritage,” in Encounters in Ethnomusicology: Essays in Honor of Philip Bohlman.  Berlin: Lit-Verlag  edited by Jaime Jones, Tim Rommen and Mike Figueroa. Berlin: Lit-Verlag, 2022;“Jazz, Race and Politics in Colonial Portugal: Discourses and Representations (1924-1971),” with Pedro Roxo (2016), in Philip Bohlman and Goffredo Plastino (eds.) Jazz Worlds/World Jazz, Chicago University Press (2016); “The Politics of Music Categorization in Portugal” in Philip Bohlman (ed.) The Cambridge History of World Music, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2013); Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX (4 vols) (ed.), Lisbon: Círculo de Leitores/Temas e Debates (2010); Music and Conflict. (co-editor with John O’Connell and author of the Epilogue), Illinois University Press (2010); Traditional Arts in Southern Arabia: Music and Society in Sohar, Sultante of Oman  (with Dieter Christensen), Berlin: VWB Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung (2009). Past academic responsibilities and awards include: President of the International Council for Traditional Music (2013 – 2021); Vice President of the Society for Ethnomusicology (2007 – 2009) and of the International Council for Traditional Music (1997-2001 and 2009-2013); Vice Chancellor of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2007-2009); President of the Portuguese Musicological Society (1996 – 2006).  Recipient of the Glarean Award for music research of the Swiss Musicological Society (2013), the Gold & Silver Medals for Cultural merit of the City Halls of Lisbon and Cascais, respectively (2012 & 2007), and the Pro-Author Award of the Portuguese Author’s Society (2010).

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(last update: January 2025)