Safeguarding the musical memory of Cape Verde - Support the virtual museum

'Cabo Verde & Music - Virtual Museum' is a cultural and educational project whose mission is to keep alive the musical memory of Cape Verde. To expand its activities we need your help.

The 'Cabo Verde & its Music - A Virtual Museum' project aims to continue its mission of preserving Cape Verde’s musical heritage and strengthening its role as an educational and cultural space. 

When it was created, the project was based on the content from Cabo Verde & a Música – Dicionário de Personagens, a book published in 2016 that focuses on the personalities within the Cape Verdean music world. Since then, it has expanded to include many other types of contents, such as discographies, films, musical traditions, quizzes, timelines, bibliographies, and much more. Currently, the virtual museum hosts over 700 web pages. 

All of this information is presented through photos, text, videos, audio, and archival materials that reveal the history of Cape Verdean music. It serves as a means of telling the History of Cape Verde through its music. 

In 2025, the museum will enter a new phase with the creation of new sections and content, alongside the development of versions of the website in English and Cape Verdean languages. 

'Cabo Verde & its Music - A Virtual Museum' seeks to disseminate knowledge in order to preserve and enhance this crucial segment of Cape Verde’s intangible heritage - musical practices in all their scope and complexity - while offering a playful and interactive environment that can engage diverse audiences. It is also a space for collaboration, bringing together contributions that help tell the stories that make up the history of Cape Verdean music. 

With all the rigor of a museum - due to its educational nature and the extensive archive - and the flexibility and reach that digital resources and the internet provide, the museum serves as a unique platform for the preservation of Cape Verdean musical history. 

Based on the idea of preserving memory in order to tell history, 'Cabo Verde & its Music - A Virtual Museum' was born in 2020, publicly launched in 2021, and continues to serve as a reference for all those interested in Cape Verdean culture. It relies on your support!

Espaço da memória visual é um local de partilha no museu virtual

About the author

Gláucia Nogueira, founder and curator of Cabo Verde & a Música - Museu Virtual , has been working on themes related to Cape Verdean culture since the 1990s, initially as a journalist and later as an anthropologist, with a special interest in the area of intangible heritage. She has lived in Cape Verde at different times and acquired Cape Verdean nationality.

Over time, he deepened his interest in the country's history and musical practices. In this context, he published the following books:

• The Time of B.Léza – Documents and Memories (2005);
• News that Makes History – The Music of Cape Verde through the Press throughout the 20th Century (2007);
• Batuku from Cape Verde – Historical Musical Journey (2015);
• Cape Verde & Music – Dictionary of Characters (2016).

During her PhD in Heritage of Portuguese Influence, completed in 2020, she worked on 19th-century European music in Cape Verde. In 2021, she launched the website Cabo Verde & a Música – Museu Virtual ( www.caboverdeamusica.online ), now with the versions www.eng.caboverdeamusica.online (English) and www.kv.caboverdeamusica.online (Cape Verdean).

Cesária Évora, a voz que divulgou Cabo Verde para o mundo

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