Giacometti, Michel (1929-1990)
CIES, Iscte-IUL
Departamento de História, Iscte-IUL
Born in Ajaccio/Corsica (France) in 1929, ethnographer Michel Giacometti lived most of his life in Portugal, where he died in 1990. Often carried out in collaboration, the main scope of his praxis was the collection of Portuguese folk music, which he edited and disseminated in various media, from cassette recordings to books, from radio to television shows. Interested in other fields, from oral literature to traditional medicine, from folk art to material culture, Giacometti was not a past-oriented salvage ethnographer and nation-builder, but a revolutionary at heart. Following the “Carnation Revolution” of 1974, he extended his collecting activities to new forms of public expression in democratic Portugal, such as political mural paintings and pamphlets. The vast materials composing his legacy may be found in various institutions, including the Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti, in Setubal.
Keywords: Ethnomusicology | Salvage ethnography | Communism | 20th century | Portugal | Labour
Secondary sources
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“Practices and Representations: The Portugal of Michel Giacometti”
Luísa Tiago de Oliveira, 2021
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A Colecção
Jorge Freitas Branco & Luísa Tiago de Oliveira, 2019
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A Missão
Jorge Freitas Branco & Luísa Tiago de Oliveira, 2019
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« Le pionnier de l’ethnomusicologie portugaise nous a quittés »
Anne Caufriez, 1992
Notes and research instruments
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Para estudar as práticas de Michel Giacometti
Luísa Tiago de Oliveira, 2023
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Arquivo sonoro de Michel Giacometti / Museu Nacional de Etnologia
Museu Nacional de Etnologia,
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Memoriamedia. e-Museu do Património Cultural Imaterial
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Museu da Música Portuguesa – Casa Verdades de Faria
Audio-video
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