Fado Resounding

Lila Ellen Gray

Published by Duke University Press 2013

Fado Resounding

Affective Politics and Urban Life

Lila Ellen Gray

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822378853

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About this book

This ethnography of fado, Portugal's most celebrated popular music genre, shows how a musical genre can sediment, circulate, and transform affect, sonorously rendering history and place as soulful and feeling as public.

Author information

Lila Ellen Gray is Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University.

Reviews

"Fado Resounding is an impressive and engaging book, one that will expand understanding of fado beyond Portugal. Lila Ellen Gray takes up a wide range of topics, discussing fado in relation to emotion, historical mythologies, gender, and the idea of 'soulfulness,' as well as Lisbon, national identity, and world music. This is a stimulating contribution to the anthropology of expressive cultural forms."—João Leal, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

"Lila Ellen Gray positions Lisbon's amateur fado scene in terms of all the contestation about what fado is and where the action is taking place. This positioning is a unique and valuable contribution to music ethnography, and Gray does major and convincing intellectual work arguing for 'amateur' scenes as paths into the deepest musical and ethnographic understandings of genre, style, performance, poesis, and the ways that sociality is lived and experienced through sound."—Steven Feld, author of Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana

-- Kimberly DaCosta Holton Ellipsis

-- Joshua Brown Ethnomusicology Review

-- Danielle M. Kuntz Notes

-- Richard Elliott Popular Music

-- Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro Anthropological Quarterly

-- Katherine Brucher Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

-- Kathryn Metz Journal of Anthropological Research

-- Michael Colvin World of Music

-- Loren Chuse Ethnomusicology

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
One. Pedagogies of the Soulful in Sound Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Two. Affects of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Three. Fado’s City Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Four. Styling Soulfulness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Five. The Gender of Genre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Six. Haunted by a Throat of Silver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Afterword: The Tangibility of Genre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Appendixes: Fado Vitória Transcriptions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Other: 22 photographs (incl. 10 in color), 10 figures

eBook

Published: October 16, 2013
ISBN: 9780822378853