The Reconstruction of Lisbon
Severa's Legacy and the Fado's Rewriting of Urban History
Michael Colvin(Author)
Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Published on 1. June 2008
Book
Hardback
131 pages
978-1-61148-305-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book exposes how Fado lyricists have appropriated popular novelist and playwright Julio Danta's forging of Mouraria fadista/ prostitute Maria Severa as a national heroine, and the Fado as the national song?in A Severa (1901) and A Severa: Peca em Quatro Actos (1901)?to manifest a sub-rosa criticism of the Estado Novo's demolition of the Mouraria between the 1930s and 1970s. The lyricists exploit Dantas's fictionalization/dramatization of Severa's life, death, and consequent legacy in its attempt to link Severa's Mouraria and the Fado to the Portuguese character, to evoke national sympathy, or even outrage for the local cause of the erasing of the Mouraria. In the fado novo 's recontextualization of Dantas's Mouraria, we observe a criticism of the imminent destruction of the Mouraria's three faces: the fadista , the artistocratic, and the Christian. The lyrics of the fado novo of the 1930s to 1970s lament the demolitions that have taken place and warn against further erasing Dantas' Mouraria.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cranbury
United States
Publishing group
Associated University Presses
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61148-305-5 (9781611483055)
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Person
Michael Colvin is assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Marymount Manhattan College.