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Lila 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).

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Acknowledgments 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

Amália Rodriguess Amália at the Olympia

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
      Published 24 August 2023
      ISBN-13 9781501346194
      978-1501346194
      ISBN-10 1501346199
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Lila 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 Contents
      Acknowledgments 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

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