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Fado and the Place of Longing

Author : Richard Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351567306
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Fado and the Place of Longing written by Richard Elliott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fado, often described as 'urban folk music', emerged from the streets of Lisbon in the mid-nineteenth century and went on to become Portugal's 'national' music during the twentieth. It is known for its strong emphasis on loss, memory and nostalgia within its song texts, which often refer to absent people and places. One of the main lyrical themes of fado is the city itself. Fado music has played a significant role in the interlacing of mythology, history, memory and regionalism in Portugal in the second half of the twentieth century. Richard Elliott considers the ways in which fado songs bear witness to the city of Lisbon, in relation to the construction and maintenance of the local. Elliott explores the ways in which fado acts as a cultural product reaffirming local identity via recourse to social memory and an imagined community, while also providing a distinctive cultural export for the dissemination of a 'remembered Portugal' on the global stage.

Fado Resounding

Author : Lila Ellen Gray
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082237885X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Fado Resounding written by Lila Ellen Gray and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

A History of the Portuguese Fado

Author : Paul Vernon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Portuguese Fado written by Paul Vernon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon a decade of research in four countries, and including unpublished data, this book traces the history and explains the meanings of this enigmatic and often misunderstood music.

The Portuguese

Author : Barry Hatton
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1908493399
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Portuguese written by Barry Hatton and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founder member of NATO. Yet it is an inconspicuous and largely overlooked country on the continent's south-west rim. In the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Age of Discovery the Portuguese led Europe out of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic and they brought Asia and Europe together. Evidence of their one-time four-continent empire can still be felt, not least in the Portuguese language which is spoken by more than 220 million people from Brazil, across parts of Africa to Asia. Analyzing present-day society and culture, The Portuguese also considers the nation's often tumultuous past. The 1755 Lisbon earthquake was one of Europe’s greatest natural disasters, strongly influencing continental thought and heralding Portugal’s extended decline. The Portuguese also weathered Europe’s longest dictatorship under twentieth-century ruler António Salazar. A 1974 military coup, called the Carnation Revolution, placed the Portuguese at the centre of Cold War attentions. Portugal’s quirky relationship with Spain, and with its oldest ally England, is also scrutinized. Portugal, which claims Europe’s oldest fixed borders, measures just 561 by 218 kilometres . Within that space, however, it offers a patchwork of widely differing and beautiful landscapes. With an easygoing and seductive lifestyle expressed most fully in their love of food, the Portuguese also have an anarchical streak evident in many facets of contemporary life. A veteran journalist and commentator on Portugal, the author paints an intimate portrait of a fascinating and at times contradictory country and its people.

Fado and Other Stories

Author : Katherine Vaz
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822978849
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Fado and Other Stories written by Katherine Vaz and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Winner of the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize This collection is filled with narrative and character grounded in the meaning and value the earth gives to human existence. In one story, a woman sleeps with the village priest, trying to gain back the land the church took from her family; in another, relatives in the Azores fight over a plot of land owned by their expatriate American cousin. Even apparently small images are cast in terms of the earth: Milton, one narrator explains, has made apples the object of a misunderstanding by naming them as Eden's fruit: "In the Bible, no fruit is named in the Garden of Eden - and to this day apples are misunderstood. They were trying to tempt people not into sin but into listening to the earth more closely. . . . their white meal runs wet with the knowledge of the language of the land, but people do not listen."Vaz's beautiful, intensely conscious language often delicately slips her stories into the realm of the fado, the Portuguese song about fate and longing. "Listen for the nightingale that presses its breast against the thorns of the rose," on character sings, "that the song might be more beautiful." Such a verse might describe Vaz's own motive behind her willingness to confront her subject's ambiguities and her characters' conflicts - the simultaneous joy and sorrow of some of life's discoveries, the pain sometimes hidden within passion and pleasure.

Saudade

Author : Mimi Khalvati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903080139
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Saudade written by Mimi Khalvati and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of translations and versions of Portuguese fado poems by leading poets writing in English, including Elaine Feinstein, Don Paterson, Marilyn Hacker and Grey Gowrie.

Queen of the Sea

Author : Barry Hatton
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 1849049971
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Queen of the Sea written by Barry Hatton and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2018 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic and intimate portrait of one of the world's great cities.

A History of Portuguese Fado

Author : Rui Vieira Nery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789722720243
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book A History of Portuguese Fado written by Rui Vieira Nery and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fado Alexandrino

Author : Antonio Lobo Antunes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802134219
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Fado Alexandrino written by Antonio Lobo Antunes and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the tenth anniversary of the return of their battalion from Mozambique, five men attempt to rekindle the fraternal bond that helped them survive the colonial war that was Portugal's Vietnam. In turn, they tell the stories of their lives before, during, and after the revolution that overthrew the long-lived Salazar dictatorship.

Rhythm Planet

Author : Tom Schnabel
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhythm Planet written by Tom Schnabel and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Radio personality Tom Schnabel spotlights giants of the global genre like the late Sufi singer Nusrat Feteh Ali Kahn and this year's Grammy winner Milton Nascimiento, making "Rhythm Planet" both an antidote to the latest flavor of pop and an affirmation of music's power. 125 illustrations, 25 in color.

Lisbon

Author : Paul Buck
Publisher : Signal Books
ISBN 13 : 9781902669342
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Lisbon written by Paul Buck and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the history and culture of Lisbon.

Fado and the Urban Poor in Portuguese Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s

Author : Michael Colvin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 185566299X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Fado and the Urban Poor in Portuguese Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s written by Michael Colvin and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling account of the role of Fado and the fadista in Portuguese film and the wider culture. Colvin studies the evolution of Fado music as the soundtrack to the Portuguese talkie. He analyzes the most successful Portuguese films of the first two decades of the Estado Novo era, showing how directors used the national songto promote the values of the young Regime regarding the poor inhabitants of Lisbon's popular neighborhoods. He considers the aesthetic, technological, and social advances that accompany the progress of the Estado Novo---Futurism;the development of sound film; the inception of national radio broadcast; access to the automobile; and urban renewal---within a historical context that considers Portugal's global profile at the time of António de Oliveira Salazar's rise to power and the inauguration of António Ferro's Secretariado da Propaganda Nacional; Portugal's role as a secret ally of the Falange during the Spanish Civil War; Lisbon's role as a neutral refuge during World War II; and the Portuguese colonial empire as an anachronism in the post-World War II years. Colvin argues that Portuguese directors have exploited the growing popularity of the Fado and Lisbon's fadistas to dissuade citizens from alien values that promote individual ambitions and the notion of an easy life of poverty in the capital. As the public image of the Fado evolves, the fadista's role in film becomes more prominent and eventually the fadista is the protagonist and the Fado the principal concern of national film. The author exposes the irony that as the social profile of the Lisbon fadista improves with the international fame of singer Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese film perpetuates and validates the outdated characterization of the fadista as a social pariah that Leitão de Barros proposed in the first Portuguese talkie, A Severa (1931). Michael Colvin is Associate Professor of HispanicStudies at Marymount Manhattan College.

A Brief History of Italy

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472140885
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Italy written by Jeremy Black and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Jeremy Black skilfully sketches social, cultural and political trends' - Christina Hardyment, Times audiobook of the week 'A remarkable mixture of cold history, wide culture and personal experience' Ciro Paoletti, Secretary General of the Italian Commission of Military History Despite the Roman Empire's famous 500-year reign over Europe, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Italy does not have the same long national history as states such as France or England. Divided for much of its history, Italy's regions have been, at various times, parts of bigger, often antagonistic empires, notably those of Spain and Austria. In addition, its challenging and varied terrain made consolidation of political control all the more difficult. This concise history covers, in very readable fashion, the formative events in Italy's past from the rise of Rome, through a unified country in thrall to fascism in the first half of the twentieth century right up to today. The birthplace of the Renaissance and the place where the Baroque was born, Italy has always been a hotbed of culture. Within modern Italy country there is fierce regional pride in the cultures and identities that mark out Tuscany, Rome, Sicily and Venice to name just a few of Italy's many famous regions. Jeremy Black draws on the diaries, memoirs and letters of historic travellers to Italy to gain insight into the passions of its people, first chronologically then regionally. In telling Italy's story, Black examines what it is that has given Italians such cultural clout - from food and drink, music and fashion, to art and architecture - and explores the causes and effects of political events, and the divisions that still exist today.

A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution

Author : Raquel Varela
Publisher : People's History
ISBN 13 : 9780745338576
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution written by Raquel Varela and published by People's History. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 25, 1974, a coup destroyed the ranks of Estado Novo's fascist government in Portugal. Ordinary people flooded the streets of Lisbon, placing red carnations in the barrels of guns and demanding a land for those who work in it. This spontaneous revolt placed power in the hands of the working classes, trade unions, and women. In order to understand the Carnation Revolution, we must recognize it as an international coalition of social movements, comprised of struggles for independence in Portugal's African colonies, the rebellion of the young military captains of the Armed Forces Movement, and the uprising of Portugal's long-oppressed working classes. Cutting against the grain of mainstream accounts, Raquel Cardeira Varela shows how it was through the organizing power of these diverse movements that a popular-front government was instituted along with the nation's withdrawal from its overseas colonies. Offering a rich account of the challenges these coalitions faced and the victories they won through revolutionary means, this book tells the tumultuous history behind the Carnation Revolution.

I Remember

Author : Joe Brainard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Remember written by Joe Brainard and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artwork by Joe Brainard. Edited by Ron Padgett.

Performing Folklore

Author : Kimberly DaCosta Holton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025302773X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Performing Folklore written by Kimberly DaCosta Holton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lens of expressive culture, Performing Folklore tracks Portugal's transition from fascism to democracy, and from imperial metropole to EEC member state. Kimberly DaCosta Holton examines the evolution and significance of ranchos folclóricos, groups of amateur musicians and dancers who perform turn-of-the-century popular tradition and have acted as cultural barometers of change throughout 20th-century Portugal. She investigates the role that these folklore groups played in the mid-twentieth-century dictatorship, how they fell out of official favor with the advent of democracy, and why they remain so popular in Portugal's post-authoritarian state, especially in emigrant and diasporic communities. Holton looks at music, dance, costume, repertoire, venue, and social interplay in both local and global contexts. She considers the importance of revivalist folklore in the construction and preservation of national identity in the face of globalization. This book embraces "invented tradition" as process rather than event, presenting an ethnography not only of folkloric revivalism but also of sweeping cultural transformation, promoted alternately by authoritarianism, democracy, emigration, and European unification.

Music in Portugal and Spain

Author : Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco
Publisher : Global Music
ISBN 13 : 9780199920617
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Music in Portugal and Spain written by Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco and published by Global Music. This book was released on 2018 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for introductory undergraduate courses in world music or ethnomusicology and for upper-level courses on music of the Iberian Peninsula, Music in Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture introduces students to the diverse musical cultures in Portugal and Spain. With abrief historical overview, the book explains how Christian, Muslim, and Jewish influences shaped the music of the two countries and how Spanish and Portuguese colonists then affected the culture of other regions through their music and musical instruments. Interviews with performers, eyewitnessaccounts of performances, and vivid illustrations based on the author's extensive fieldwork help students engage with the sounds and meanings of Portuguese and Spanish musical genres and styles that thrive in local communities, as well as in the transnational world music scene.