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Amália Rodrigues’s Amália at the Olympia (Hardcover)
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Amália Rodrigues’s Amália at the Olympia (Hardcover)
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The voice of Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999), the “Queen of Fado”
and Portugal’s most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its
interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach.
Amalia l’Olympia (1957) is an album made from recordings
of her first performances at the fabled Olympia Music Hall in Paris
in 1956. This album, which was issued for multiple national markets
(including: France; USA; Japan; Britain; the Netherlands)
catapulted Amália Rodrigues into the international limelight.
During its time, this album held the potential for international
listeners, outside of Portugal, to represent Portugal, while also
standing in for cosmopolitanism, the glamorous city of Paris, and
to present a sonorous voyage in sound. This book introduces readers
to the voice of Amália Rodrigues and to the genre of the
Portuguese fado, offering a primer in how to listen to both. It
unpacks this iconic album and the voice, sound, style, and
celebrity of Amália Rodrigues. It situates this album within a
historical context marked by cold war Atlanticist diplomacy,
Portugal’s dictatorial regime, and the emergence of new forms of
media, travel, and tourism.In so doing, it examines processes that
shaped the internationalization of peripheral popular musics and
the making of female vocal stardom in the mid-20th century.
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