Publications

  • Borchert, G. (2016) Review of Between Nostalgia and Apocalypse: Popular Music and the Staging of Brazil by Daniel B. Sharp. Popular Music [Online], 35 (2) May, pp.278-280. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0261143016000131.

  • Borchert, G. (2015) Review of Brazilian Jive: From Samba to Bossa and Rap by David Treece. Popular Music [Online], 34 (3) October, pp. 509-511. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0261143015000471.

  • Borchert, G. (2012) El Sistema: A Subjectivity of Time. In Araújo, E. and Duque, E. eds. Os tempos sociais e o mundo contemporâneo. Um debate para as ciências sociais e humanas [E-book]. Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, pp. 59-80. Available at: http://www.lasics.uminho.pt/ojs/index.php/cecs_ebooks/issue/view/119.

  • Borchert, G. (2012) Sistema Scotland: A Critical Inquiry into the Implementation of the El Sistema Model in Raploch. MMus(R) thesis, University of Glasgow. Available at: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4044/

  • Borchert, G. (2009) A Orquestra Sinfônica: Uma Nova Economia da Experiência Estética. Uma subjetividade do modernismo no contemporâneo. Master’s thesis, Universidade Federal Fluminense. Available at: http://server.slab.uff.br/dissertacoes/2009/GustavoBorchert.pdf

Conferences

  • El Sistema and the Alternatives: Social Action through Music in Critical Perspective, University of London, 2015. Co-convenor and paper presented, The Symphony Orchestra as a Social Model under post-Fordism.

  • III Symposium on the Paradigms of Teaching Musical Instruments in the 21st Century, Department of Music, Universidade de Évora, Portugal, 2013. Paper presented, Social Discipline through Instrumental Music Education? A Critique of the El Sistema Pedagogical Model.

  • Social Times and the Contemporary World, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, 2012. Paper presented, El Sistema: A Subjectivity of Time.

  • VI International Colloquium of Musicology, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba, 2010. Paper presented, A Orquestra Sinfônica: Uma Nova Economia da Experiência Estética. Uma subjetividade do modernismo no contemporâneo.