Urban Drummers: The Experience of Playing, Being and Feeling in Community

Fábio Freitas Marques is a PhD student in cultural studies at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho, master in communication, art and culture, by this same institution, and graduated in social communication/journalism at the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil). Currently, he develops research focused on popular music, identities and everyday life in urban contexts in Portugal and Brazil, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/BD/147043/2019). At the Communication and Society Research Centre, he is a researcher-member of the project Passeio – Platform for Urban Art and Culture.

Jean-Martin Rabot is a PhD in sociology. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology of the University of Minho and a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre. His work focuses on the sociology of the imaginary, cultural studies and new technologies. He has published several texts, covering themes such as: “Reflexões Sobre o Confinamento e o Distanciamento Social em Tempos de Pandemia” (Reflections on Confinement and Social Distancing in Times of Pandemic); “Vilfredo Pareto: Ação, Heterogeneidade Social e Sentimentos” (Vilfredo Pareto: Action, Social Heterogeneity and Sentiments); “La Résurgence du Sacré Dans la Postmodernité” (The Resurgence of the Sacred in Postmodernity); “L’Imaginaire et la Reliance Dans la Sociologie de Durkheim” (The Imaginary and Reliance in Durkheim’s Sociology); “De l’Importance de la Psychologie Collective Dans les Sciences Sociales: Serge Moscovici et les Passions Humaines” (The Significance of Collective Psychology in Social Sciences: Serge Moscovici and Human Passions).

Helena Pires is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho. She is a PhD in communication sciences, in communication semiotics, at the University of Minho (2007). She teaches in advertising, art and communication, having participated, in the last years, in the direction of the master in communication, art and culture of the University of Minho, where she has also taught. For 4 years, until November 2019, she was the coordinator of the advertising working group of the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences. She has published and developed research work on the semiotics of the (urban) landscape and in communication, art and visual culture. She is a research member at the Communication and Society Research Centre. She is currently co-coordinator of the Passeio – Platform for Urban Art and Culture, a research project of the Communication and Society Research Centre.