Bart Vanspauwen

Bart Vanspauwen is a PhD student and research collaborator at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) in Lisbon. His dissertation topic is A Critique of Lusofonia. Migrant Musics of CPLP Countries in the City of Lisbon, exploring the integration of lusophone migrant musicians in Lisbon. Discursively approaching music as a point of social connection in a postcolonial city where cultural entrepreneurs use the political term of lusofonia, he wants to

shed light on how musicians at a community level, voluntary associations and governmental institutions interact in this process.

Bart obtained his Master in Ethnomusicology at UNL in 2010, his Postgraduate Degree in Cultural Studies in 2003 and his Bachelor in Germanic Languages in 2001 (both at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). In March and May 2005, he guest-edited a double issue of Image & Narrative, on ‘Visualization of the subaltern in world music’, Vols. V (2) and VI (1).