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Luan Sodré
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Name:
Luan Sodré
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City/Place:
Salvador, Bahia
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Country:
Brazil
Life & Work
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Bio:
Natural de Salvador-Ba, Luan Sodré é um pensador que comunica as suas ideias através da música, da pesquisa e da docência. Inquieto, tem se dedicado ao estudo da interface música, cultura e sociedade com foco nas existências e no pensamento afrodiaspórico. Nesse sentido, em 2021 lançou o álbum Afrodiaspórico com o Luan Sodré Trio e em 2024, o single Bons Ventos com o percussionista Marcelo Pinho.
Dentre outros trabalhos, em 2018 fez direção musical e gravou violões e cavaquinhos do disco Voa Voa Maria – O samba de Matarandiba. Em 2022, gravou violões no EP Mestre Aurino de Maracangalha e sua Viola e no single Brilho das Águas, de Laila Rosa.
Luan Sodré é violonista, compositor, produtor, pesquisador e educador musical. É licenciado, mestre e doutor em Música pela UFBA, além de aprendiz de capoeira na ACANNE. É professor adjunto do Departamento de Letras e Artes da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, onde lidera o Grupo de Pesquisa Diáspora e o Laboratório de Pesquisa em Música, Cultura e Sociedade. É, também, professor colaborador do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Música da UFBA.
No âmbito editorial, além de capítulos de livros e publicações em periódicos, em 2022 publicou o Songbook Afrodiaspórico e foi um dos organizadores do livro Música e Pensamento Afrodiaspórico, ambos pela Editora Diálogos Insubmissos. Em 2024, lançou o livro Práticas Musicais Afrodiaspóricas: perspectivas para pensar o ensino de artes no Brasil, pela UEFS Editora. Além das publicações, ainda no âmbito da pesquisa, é dos criadores e entusiasta do Simpósio Música e Pensamento Afrodiaspórico, na ANPPOM (Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Música).
English:
Born in Salvador-BA, Luan Sodré is a thinker who communicates his ideas through music, research, and teaching. Restless, he has focused his studies on the intersection of music, culture, and society, with an emphasis on Afro-diasporic existence and thought. In this context, he released the album *Afrodiaspórico* with the Luan Sodré Trio in 2021, and in 2024, the single *Bons Ventos* in collaboration with percussionist Marcelo Pinho.
Among other works, in 2018, he was the musical director and recorded guitars and cavaquinhos for the album *Voa Voa Maria – O samba de Matarandiba*. In 2022, he recorded guitars for the EP *Mestre Aurino de Maracangalha e sua Viola* and the single *Brilho das Águas* by Laila Rosa.
Luan Sodré is a guitarist, composer, producer, researcher, and music educator. He holds a bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree in Music from UFBA, and is also a capoeira apprentice at ACANNE. He is an associate professor in the Department of Letters and Arts at the State University of Feira de Santana, where he leads the Research Group Diáspora and the Laboratory of Research in Music, Culture, and Society. He is also a collaborator in the Graduate Program in Music at UFBA.
In publishing, in addition to book chapters and articles in academic journals, he published the *Afrodiaspórico Songbook* in 2022 and co-organized the book *Música e Pensamento Afrodiaspórico*, both by Editora Diálogos Insubmissos. In 2024, he released the book *Práticas Musicais Afrodiaspóricas: Perspectivas para Pensar o Ensino de Artes no Brasil* by UEFS Editora. In addition to his publications, he is also one of the founders and enthusiasts of the Symposium on Music and Afro-diasporic Thought, organized by ANPPOM (National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Music).
My Writing
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Publications:
PRODUÇÃO BIBLIOGRÁFICA
SODRÉ DE SOUZA, Luan; WESTERMANN, Bruno. Produzir um espetáculo de música: que parangolé é esse? In: Fazer música no sertão: O curso de Licenciatura em Música da UEFS em seus primeiros dez anos. UEFS Editora, 2023, p. 81-102.
SODRÉ DE SOUZA, Luan. 1, 2, 3, e, Lasca! Experiências formativas e a construção de conhecimento artístico-musical na universidade: a perspectiva de uma educação musical afrodiaspórica. In: DORING, Katharina; CONRADO, Magarete. Artes musicais africanas na Diáspora: corpos, vozes, ritmos e sonoridades em movimento. Editora Dialética, 2023.
SANTOS, E.; SODRÉ DE SOUZA, L.; SANTOS, M. Música e Pensamento Afrodiaspórico. Série Pesquisa em Música no Brasil, vol.10. Salvador/Ba: Diálogos Insubmissos; ANPPOM; Coletivo Mwanamuziki, 2022.
SODRÉ DE SOUZA, L. O Estudo das Práticas Musicais Afrodiaspóricas: uma reflexão sobre como dizem que temos que ser. In: SANTOS, E.; SODRÉ DE SOUZA, L.; SANTOS, M. Música e Pensamento Afrodiaspórico. Série Pesquisa em Música no Brasil, vol.10. Salvador/Ba: Diálogos Insubmissos; ANPPOM; Coletivo Mwanamuziki, 2022. p.174-204.
SODRÉ DE SOUZA, L.; AMARO, V. B. Songbook Afrodiaspórico | Luan Sodré Trio. Salvador: Editora Diálogos Insubmissos, 2022, v.1. p.158.
SODRÉ DE SOUZA, Luan; SANTOS, Marcos ; SANTOS, Valnei Souza . Experiências educacionais africanas na diáspora e experiências afrodiaspóricas na educação: diálogo de saberes desde as práticas culturais. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE EDUCAÇÃO DO CAMPO, v. 6, p. 1-20, 2021.
SODRÉ DE SOUZA, Luan. Reflexões sobre música enquanto tecnologia negra feiticeira ou como as fricções epistemológicas são potências de criação de outras coisas na pesquisa em Música. Série Paralaxe, v.5. Salvador: EDUFBA. 2020
SOUZA, Luan Sodré de. Educação musical afrodiaspórica: uma proposta decolonial a partir dos sambas do Recôncavo Baiano. Revista da Abem, v. 28, 2020, p. 249-266.
SODRÉ DE SOUZA, Luan. Umbigada: materialização estética de uma existência. In: PRUDENTE, Celso; SILVA, Paulo Vinicius Baptista. Mostra Internacional de Cinema Negro. São Paulo: Jandaíra, 2020, p. 426-449.
SOUZA, L. S. Educação musical afrodiaspórica: uma proposta decolonial para o ensino acadêmico do violão a partir dos sambas do Recôncavo baiano. 2019. 248 fl. Tese (Doutorado em Música) – Escola de Música, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, 2019
SODRÉ DE SOUZA, Luan. Os Sambas do Recôncavo Baiano no Ensino Acadêmico do Violão: uma proposta decolonial de ensino em resposta à colonialidade do saber. Pontos de Interrogação. v. 8, n. 2, jul.-dez., p. 75-104, 2018.
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Few people know that the Bay of All Saints was final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. And few people know the transcendence these people, and their descendents, wrought. That's where this Matrix begins...
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The idea is simple, powerful, and egalitarian: To propagate for them, the Matrix must propagate for all. Most in the world are within six degrees of us. The concept of a "small world" network (see Wolfram above) applies here, placing artists from the Recôncavo and the sertão, from Salvador... from Brooklyn, Berlin and Mombassa... musicians, writers, filmmakers... clicks (recommendations) away from their peers all over the planet.
This Integrated Global Creative Economy (we invented the concept) uncoils from Brazil's sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix... expanding like the canopy of a rainforest tree rooted in Bahia, branches spreading to embrace the entire world...
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Great culture is great power.
And in a small world great things are possible.
Alicia Svigals
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"Very nice! Thank you for this. Warmest regards and wishing much success for the project! Matt"
—Son of Jimmy Garrison (bass for John Coltrane, Bill Evans...); plays with Herbie Hancock and other greats...
I opened the shop in Salvador, Bahia in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for magnificent Brazilian musicians.
David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR found us (above), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix, then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
Years ago in NYC (I've lived here in Brazil for 32 years now) I "rescued" unpaid royalties (performance & mechanical) for artists/composers including Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (for his rights in Bob Marley compositions; Clement was Bob's first producer), Led Zeppelin, Ray Barretto, Philip Glass and many others. Aretha called me out of the blue vis-à-vis money owed by Atlantic Records. Allen Klein (managed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles) called about money due the estate of Sam Cooke. Jerry Ragovoy (Time Is On My Side, Piece of My Heart) called just to see if he had any unpaid money floating around out there (the royalty world was a shark-filled jungle, to mangle metaphors, and I doubt it's changed).
But the pertinent client (and friend) in the present context is Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs. Earl went from doo-wopping on Harlem streetcorners to chart-topping success to working as a custodian at PS 87 elementary school on the west side of Manhattan. Through all of this he never lost what made him great.
Greatness and fame are too often conflated. The former should be accessible independently of the latter.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Salvador is our base. If you plan to visit Bahia, there are some things you should probably know and you should first visit:
www.salvadorbahiabrazil.com
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