Analyzing music in the city: a methodological essay in the Catete and Glória neighborhoods, Rio de Janeiro

This article aims to develop and apply a methodology for understanding and analyzing musical practices in both their material and immaterial facets. Two methods, soundwalk and urban ethnography, are applied in conjunction and utilize three instruments – a field sheet, sound recording, and cartography – to describe musical practices in relation to the space they occupy. The focus is on analyzing the relationships and patterns that arise precisely from the situation of music in the urban space, and they are described through the typification of musical practices found in the Cultural Environment Protection Area of the Glória and Catete neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro.

Keywords
musical practices; soundwalk; urban ethnography; soundscape; georeferenced cartography