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Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life
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Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life Paperback - 2013

by Lila Ellen Gray


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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'sfado 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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  • Title Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life
  • Author Lila Ellen Gray
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham
  • Date 2013-10-16
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780822354710 / 0822354713
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Urban Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Fados - Portugal - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013018963
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.626

About the author

Lila Ellen Gray is Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University.

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