Pedro dos Santos Boia
Department: Sociology and Philosophy
Research Centre/Unit: SocArts Research Group
Project Summary
The Viola Today
My current research intends to understand how the viola is seen and explored by violists today, focusing on collaboration between players and instrument makers, playing techniques, repertoire, and performance. The study considers the materiality and the technologies of instruments, as well as processes of psychocultural construction, incorporation, cognition, and embodiment.
Supervisory Team
Professors Tia DeNora (lead) & Andrew Pickering.
Wider Research Interests
Besides Music Sociology, Music Studies and Musical Performance, I am very interested in Cultural Sociology broadly understood as well as in STS - Science & Technology Studies, and Education. I have also a special interest in Social Theory, Methodology and Epistemology.
Authored Publications/Reports
Lopes, J. Teixeira, Boia, P. dos Santos, Ferro, L., Guerra, P. (2010) Género e Música Electrónica de Dança. Experiências, percursos e retratos de mulheres clubbers, SOCIOLOGIA PROBLEMAS & PRÁTICAS, No. 62, peer-reviewed journal published by CIES (Centre of Research and Studies of Sociology) of ISCTE, IUL - Lisbon University Institute/ Celta, 35-56
Boia, P. dos Santos, Lopes, J. T., Ferro, L., () Construções Identitárias de Género de Mulheres Clubbers: proposta de um quadro analítico, CONFIGURAÇÕES, peer-reviewed journal published by the CICS - Social Sciences Research Centre of the University of Minho (Portugal) (accepted, forthcoming);
Boia, P. dos Santos () Humanizing the Analysis: Mozart as a transitional figure, the symbolism of the Viola and Romanticism (working title), CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY, Sage-BSA, (accepted with revisions, forthcoming);
Boia, P. dos Santos (2010) Construção social, materialidade e identidade na relação instrumento-instrumentista, SOCIOLOGIA, Vol. 20, pp. 109-136, peer-reviewed journal published by the Sociology Department of the University of Porto.
Lopes, J. Teixeira, Boia, P. dos Santos, Ferro, L., Guerra, P. (2010) GÉNERO E MÚSICA ELECTRÓNICA DE DANÇA. Experiências, percursos e retratos de mulheres clubbers, Lisboa: CIG - Portuguese Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality [BOOK]
Boia, P. dos Santos (2008) Capturando a Materialidade da Música na Análise Sociológica: o caso da viola d'arco, Proceedings from 6th Congress of Sociology “Mundos Sociais: saberes e práticas”, promoted by APS (Portuguese Sociological Association) (25-28th June 2008, Lisbon);
Lopes, J. T., Boia, P. dos Santos, Ferro, L., Guerra, P. (2008) Mulheres e Construções Identitárias de Género nas (Sub)culturas de Música Electrónica de Dança: um quadro analítico e resultados preliminares, Proceedings from 6th Congress of Sociology “Mundos Sociais: saberes e práticas”, promoted by APS (Portuguese Sociological Association) (25-28th June 2008, Lisbon);
Boia, P. dos Santos and Lopes, J. Teixeira (2012) Do “flashar” dos 27 à techno-clubber de 40. Retrato sociológico de Maria., In Lopes, J.T., REGISTOS DO ACTOR PLURAL. BERNARD LAHIRE NA SOCIOLOGIA PORTUGUESA, Porto: Afrontamento [BOOK CHAPTER]
