Dr Pedro Cravinho

Dr Pedro Cravinho is the Keeper of the Archives at the Faculty of Arts, Design & Media, and responsible for the National Jazz Archive Satellite Collection at Birmingham City University.  He has been a Trustee of the Archive since  2016.

As a Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, his work focuses on the twentieth-century jazz diaspora social, political and musical history. 

Dr Cravinho holds a BMus in Musicology and a PhD in Ethnomusicology & Jazz Studies from the University of Aveiro (Portugal), where he specialised in the cultural politics of jazz on television. As a regular guest-speaker he has lectured extensively nationally and abroad on Portuguese twentieth-century jazz history. He is a SEDA Accredited Research Supervisor and welcomes PhD students interested in exploring topics related to Jazz, Media and Archives.

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