Abstract
In 1966, with the Portuguese fascist regime in full effect and 8 years before the democratic revolution (25th April 1974), six young women joined a Philharmonic Band in a small northern town. Their ages ranged from 15 to 28 years old and, in a completely male-dominated milieu, these women took up places left empty by young men that either had to emigrate to earn a living or had deserted from the army to avoid serving in the colonial war ongoing in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea since 1961. In this chapter, I provide an account of my listening to the voices of five of the six women who lived this experience back in the 1960s (one of them has passed away in the meanwhile), and how this has shaped their lives in the sense of a unique time that they constantly like to recall.
Six young women stepping
up to the band-stand
A shine in their eyes
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Mota, G. (2020). Six Young Women on a Band-Stand: Voices Lost in Time. In: Smith, T.D., Hendricks, K.S. (eds) Narratives and Reflections in Music Education. Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28707-8_2
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