Fado Resounding - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fado Resounding write by Lila Ellen Gray. This book was released on 2013-10-16. Fado Resounding available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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."
Fado and the Urban Poor in Portuguese Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s
Fado and the Urban Poor in Portuguese Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fado and the Urban Poor in Portuguese Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s write by Michael Colvin. This book was released on 2016. Fado and the Urban Poor in Portuguese Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11 write by David Horn. This book was released on 2017-10-05. Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. See:
Transnational Portuguese Studies
Transnational Portuguese Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transnational Portuguese Studies write by Hilary Owen. This book was released on 2020-06-17. Transnational Portuguese Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transnational Portuguese Studies offers a radical rethinking of the role played by the concepts of ‘nationhood’ and ‘the nation’ in the epistemologies that underpin Portuguese Studies as an academic discipline. Portuguese Studies offers a particularly rich and enlightening challenge to methodological nationalism in Modern Languages, not least because the teaching of Portuguese has always extended beyond the study of the single western European country from which the language takes its name. However, this has rarely been analysed with explicit, or critical, reference to the ‘transnational turn’ in Arts and Humanities. This volume of essays from leading scholars in Portugal, Brazil, the USA and the UK, explores how the histories, cultures and ideas constituted in and through Portuguese language resist borders and produce encounters, from the manoeuvres of 15th century ‘globalization’ and cartography to present-day mega events such as the Rio Olympics. The result is a timely counter-narrative to the workings of linguistic and cultural nationalism, demonstrating how texts, paintings and photobooks, musical forms, political ideas, cinematic representations, gender identities, digital communications and lexical forms, may travel, translate and embody transcultural contact in ways which only become readable through the optics of transnationalism. Contributors: Ana Margarida Dias Martins, Anna M. Klobucka, Christopher Larkosh, Claire Williams, Cláudia Pazos Alonso, Edward King, Ellen W. Sapega, Fernando Arenas, Hilary Owen, José Lingna Nafafé, Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Maria Luísa Coelho, Paulo de Medeiros, Sara Ramos Pinto, Sheila Moura Hue, Simon Park, Susana Afonso, Tatiana Heise, Toby Green, Tori Holmes, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá and Zoltán Biedermann.
On Earth Or in Poems
On Earth Or in Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Earth Or in Poems write by Eric Calderwood. This book was released on 2023-05-16. On Earth Or in Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The idea of al-Andalus—medieval Muslim Iberia—has many uses, inspiring artists and activists who imagine a place and time of peaceful coexistence among Europeans, North Africans, and Middle Easterners; Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Eric Calderwood explores the consolidation of this reputation and its impact on artistic and political aspiration.
