Alcides José Delgado Lopes

Alcides Lopes is originally from Porto Novo – Santo Antão Island, Cape Verde. He holds a degree in music from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2006).
He was a teacher at the Simbôa music school, in the Ildo Lobo Cultural Palace (2010-2011).
He worked at the Casa da Música of Uni-CV (2011-2012), when he published Music Education in Cape Verde published in the Portuguese Journal of Art Education in 2012.
He holds a master's degree in Anthropology from UFPE (2015), and is currently a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the same institution.

In 2015 he published a review of the work. When sadness is beautiful: suffering and the constitution of the social and of truth among the Ave de Jesus – Juazeiro do Norte – CE, by Roberta Campos, in the Journal of Anthropological Studies and Research (REIA).
In 2016, the same magazine published... Cape Verdean Creole and popular music: semiotic processes in the construction and preservation of social identity in globalizing transnational dimensions..
In 2017, in addition to participating in another edition of the National Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Ethnomusicology (VIII ENABET 2017) in Rio de Janeiro, he published a review of the Portuguese edition of A. Seeger's work. Why do the Kisêdjê sing?in the association's magazine, Music and Culture.
More recently, he republished an article in the program's magazine (REIA), entitled... Our White People': Vocal Art and Socialization KisêdjêAlcides has experience in the field of Arts, with an emphasis on Music, working mainly on the following themes: Music Education and Ethnographic Documentaries. His research field is Ethnomusicology.