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Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life

Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life

Hardcover

AnthropologyCountry & FolkWorld Music

ISBN10: 0822354594
ISBN13: 9780822354598
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Oct 16 2013
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Fado, Portugal's most celebrated genre of popular music, can be heard in Lisbon clubs, concert halls, tourist sites, and neighborhood bars. Fado sounds traverse the globe, on internationally marketed recordings, as the soul of Lisbon. A fadista might sing until her throat hurts, the voice hovering on the break of a sob; in moments of sung beauty listeners sometimes cry. Providing an ethnographic account of Lisbon's fado scene, Lila Ellen Gray draws on research conducted with amateur fado musicians, fadistas, communities of listeners, poets, fans, and cultural brokers during the first decade of the twenty-first century. She demonstrates the power of music to transform history and place into feeling in a rapidly modernizing nation on Europe's periphery, a country no longer a dictatorship or an imperial power. Gray emphasizes the power of the genre to absorb sounds, memories, histories, and styles and transform them into new narratives of meaning and soul.

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