Fado Resounding - Affective Politics and Urban Life

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

List of contents

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

1. Pedagogies of the Soulful in Sound 27

2. Affects of History 70

3. Fado's City 105

4. Styling Soulfulness 139

5. The Gender of Genre 158

6. Haunted by a Throat of Silver 179

Afterword: The Tangibility of Genre 227

Appendixes: Fado Vitória

Transcriptions 231

Notes 243

References 281

Index 295

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lila Ellen Gray
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2013
• EAN: 9780822354710
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5471-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Portugal, Folk-Stil, Traditionelle Musik und Volksmusik