Fado Resounding - Affective Politics and Urban Life

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

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lila Ellen Gray
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 25.10.2013
• EAN: 9780822354710
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5471-0
• Pagine: 328
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica; Portugal, Folk-Stil, Traditionelle Musik und Volksmusik