Collected Essays: - Musical and Anthropological Perspectives

The MusiCS - Música, Cultura e Sociedade [Music, Culture, and Society in English] research group at UDESC/CNPq, presents a compendium of articles by Prof. Dr. Acácio Piedade, in his honor, on the occasion of his retirement as a professor at the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC). His academic work in the field of music has encompassed composition, theory and analysis, semiotics, anthropology, ethnomusicology, rhetoric, narrativity, and transculturalism. The sixteen articles selected for this book reflect Dr. Piedade’s significant contributions over the past twenty years (2003-2023).