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

by RichardElliott (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $141.20

  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. This title considers the ways in which fado songs bear witness to the city of Lisbon, in relation to the construction and maintenance of the local.