António Manuel Nunes

António Manuel Nunes was born in the Azores in 1965. He holds a degree in History from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra (FL/UC: 1994) and a master's degree in History from the University of Minho (UMinho: 1999).
Professor and researcher, he was a consultant for several projects, organizer of tribute and commemorative shows in the field of the history of Coimbra Song (CC), and supervisor of academic works.
He began his investigations into CC in 1987.
In line with the research lines she presented in 1998 at the VI CC Seminar, since 1990 she has deepened her studies in biographies, repertoires, phonographic inventories, aesthetic movements, traditionalisms and modernities, uses and abuses of memory, and policies of heritage preservation and touristification.
He published a vast body of work on his blog. Coimbra Guitar since its creation in 2005, being responsible for the coordination and editing of this repository since 2015.
Among the works he authored, the following stand out: "The Academic Musical Forum of Coimbra" (1990-1991); In the Footsteps of Edmundo Bettencourt, a Voice for Modernity (1999); Flávio Rodrigues da Silva, Fragments for a Guitar (co-authored with José Paulo, 2002); "From the Memory(ies) of the Coimbra Song" (in Living Testimonies, 2002); The Coimbra Song in the 19th Century / 1840-1900 (2002, published in chapters on the Guitarra de Coimbra blog, 2005 onwards); The Viola Goes to the Street (unpublished memoir on the viola toeira, 2016); Strophic Repertoire of the Coimbra Song / 1840-2015 (co-authored with José Anjos de Carvalho, 2018).
He also wrote and coordinated booklets for LPs and CDs such as Coimbra em Canções /Praxis Nova (1991), Vozes de Sons de Coimbra (TradiSom: 2013) and Tempo(s) de Coimbra (EMI: 2013), in which he incorporated the best practices and suggestions of Michel Giacometti, José Alberto Sardinha and Maria Antónia Esteves.
He conducted numerous field studies in the area of ​​oral history, primarily in Coimbra.