- Series: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
- Hardcover: 249 pages
- Publisher: Ashgate (June 1, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0754667952
- ISBN-13: 978-0754667957
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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