Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life

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List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Pedagogies of the Soulful in Sound 27
2. Affects of History 70
3. Fado's City 105
4. Styling Soulfulness 139
5. The Gender of Genre 158
6. Haunted by a Throat of Silver 179
Afterword: The Tangibility of Genre 227
Appendixes: Fado Vitoria
Transcriptions 231
Notes 243
References 281
Index 295

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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'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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Fado Resounding is well written and accessible to the general reader yet it integrates eclectic, interdisciplinary theories, and includes an up-to-date bibliography and extensive research notes for the more informed reader. This book is a valuable contribution to the field of Portuguese culture and music studies in general, and to fado studies in particular.... This is the first scholarly book of its kind, and perhaps only the third work in the last century based primarily on empirical research amongst urban, amateur fado singers." -- Michael Colvin

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