Description
Book SynopsisLila Ellen Gray is a cultural anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, and interdisciplinary scholar of music and sound. She is currently Associate Professor of Music at Dickinson College, USA. Her book
Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life (2013), was the recipient of the 2014 Woody Guthrie Award of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US).
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on the Text Track List Preface: A Yearning for Liveness Part I: Setting the Stage 1. Dresses, Acrobats, and the Sound of Moonlight 2. Biographies of Her Voice 3. A
Fado Primer 4. Listening to Amália Interlude I: Mid-century Representations: NATO:
“Introducing Portugal” Part II: Listening to
Amalia à l’Olympia Prelude: On Love and Longing 5. Presentation and “Uma Casa Portuguesa” 6. “Perseguição” 7. “Barco Negro” 8. Fados about Fado: “Tudo Isto É Fado” and “Que Deus me Perdoe” Interlude II: Mid-Century Representations: Simone de Beauvoir’s
Les Mandarins 9. Diva Constellations
Coda: “Fado Amália” Notes References Index
