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Fado's City
Author(s) -
GRAY LILA ELLEN
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2011.01089.x
Subject(s) - poetics , scholarship , musical , poetry , sociology , affect (linguistics) , aesthetics , sociality , politics , anthropology , visual arts , art , literature , communication , political science , ecology , law , biology
SUMMARY “Fado's City” examines the poetics and affective place‐making politics surrounding practices of performance and reception of the musical and poetic genre of fado in Lisbon, Portugal. Drawing on literature in the anthropology of the senses, affect theory, interdisciplinary work on genre, and scholarship in the anthropology of sound and aesthetics, this article argues for the labor of musical genre in organizing, recontextualizing, and mobilizing place‐based affects and modes of sociality.