Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life - Couverture souple

Gray, Lila Ellen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822354713 ISBN 13 : 9780822354710

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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 propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822354713
• ISBN 13: 9780822354710
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible