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Fado and the Place of Longing - Loss, Memory and the City (Paperback)
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Fado and the Place of Longing - Loss, Memory and the City (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
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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.
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