Department of Music
Victor Max Smith
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Key information
Key information
- Department
- Department of Music
- Qualifications
- BSc Anthropology, MRes Social Anthropology
- Thesis title
- Sambactivists: Protest, Performance, and Play with Activist Samba-Fusion Bands in London
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Angela Impey
Biography
Victor Max Smith is an activist and researcher who is part of the samba-fusion protest music movement. During their undergraduate degree, they studied how inclusive communities are created and maintained in UK medieval reenactment. After moving to London for their MRes at SOAS, Victor joined the university’s samba-fusion band, Sambatage, and began playing with the Extinction Rebellion and Rhythms of Resistance bands during XR’s October 2019 protests. Inspired by their experiences in the bands, they decided to change the topic of their future research from resistance and folk culture in India to samba-fusion activism in the UK. They are now a band coordinator, and as well as researching the role of samba-fusion in activism and how it relates to other research on community music and resistance, they are also considering how their position as an insider contributes to their research process.
Research interests
Ethnomusicology, anthropology, activism and resistance, community building, folk cultures, liminality, ritual, activist research, autoethnography.
Personal links
https://victormaxsmith.com/
