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fadista | The Place of Longing
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Loss, Memory and the City. The Place of Longing. RSS feed for this section. The Road to Novo Fado (I). A number of artists who were identified with the Portuguese rock boom. Of the 1980s made a connection with fado, no doubt as a strategy to localize the otherwise ‘placeless place’ of Anglo-American pop and rock. Mler Ife Dada, a group formed in 1984 in Cascais, provide a good example of this strategy. In 1986, the group were joined by singer Anabela Duarte, who participated on two seminal albums,. Sugge...
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Lisbon | The Place of Longing
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Loss, Memory and the City. The Place of Longing. RSS feed for this section. Fado’s association with Alfama has allowed its songwriters not only to negotiate the dark alleyways and labyrinths of the quarter, but also to look down on the city and the river below. Hermínia Silva can thus sing of the ‘ Telhados de Lisboa. Let’s return to ‘Gaivota’, a fine example of. Lent his jazz-influenced phrasing to the song and it was reinvented, arguably becoming as much his as it was Amália’s. Than normal to the accom...
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Gaivota | The Place of Longing
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Loss, Memory and the City. The Place of Longing. Fado’s association with Alfama has allowed its songwriters not only to negotiate the dark alleyways and labyrinths of the quarter, but also to look down on the city and the river below. Hermínia Silva can thus sing of the ‘ Telhados de Lisboa. Rooftops of Lisbon] and Tristão da Silva of the view ‘Da Janela do Meu Quarto’ [From the Window of My Room], from where he sees Alfama, the seven hills of Lisbon, the varinas, the cathedral and the Tejo. Than normal ...
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Ana Moura – Coliseu | The Place of Longing
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Loss, Memory and the City. The Place of Longing. Ana Moura – Coliseu. In the wake of Ana Moura’s growing international success, her 2008 live album. Has been given an international release by World Village. My review of the album is here. The Road to Novo Fado (I). Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Ana Moura | The Place of Longing
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Loss, Memory and the City. The Place of Longing. Tag Archives: Ana Moura. Ana Moura – Coliseu. In the wake of Ana Moura’s growing international success, her 2008 live album. Has been given an international release by World Village. My review of the album is here. Ana Moura: Leva-me aos Fados. This is the review. I wrote for the recent international release of Ana Moura’s album. Released in Portugal in 2009], with some additional media files added.). Traditional) fado melodies on the second. And Filipe La...
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Loss, Memory and the City. The Place of Longing. RSS feed for this section. Fado’s association with Alfama has allowed its songwriters not only to negotiate the dark alleyways and labyrinths of the quarter, but also to look down on the city and the river below. Hermínia Silva can thus sing of the ‘ Telhados de Lisboa. Let’s return to ‘Gaivota’, a fine example of. Lent his jazz-influenced phrasing to the song and it was reinvented, arguably becoming as much his as it was Amália’s. Than normal to the accom...
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The Road to Novo Fado (I) | The Place of Longing
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Loss, Memory and the City. The Place of Longing. The Road to Novo Fado (I). A number of artists who were identified with the Portuguese rock boom. Of the 1980s made a connection with fado, no doubt as a strategy to localize the otherwise ‘placeless place’ of Anglo-American pop and rock. Mler Ife Dada, a group formed in 1984 in Cascais, provide a good example of this strategy. In 1986, the group were joined by singer Anabela Duarte, who participated on two seminal albums,. Suggesting a hitherto unexplored...
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fado | The Place of Longing
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Loss, Memory and the City. The Place of Longing. RSS feed for this section. Ana Moura – Coliseu. In the wake of Ana Moura’s growing international success, her 2008 live album. Has been given an international release by World Village. My review of the album is here. The Road to Novo Fado (I). A number of artists who were identified with the Portuguese rock boom. 1989) The latter contained a song called ‘ Dance Music. Duarte went on to release a series of solo albums, including. 1988), which included tradi...
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