Open AccessGray, Lila Ellen. Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013.
Author(s) -
Kimberly DaCosta Holton
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of lusophone studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2469-4800
DOI - 10.21471/jls.v12i0.233
Subject(s) - gray (unit) , scholarship , politics , ethnography , magnum opus , portuguese , sociology , visual arts , media studies , history , art , political science , anthropology , law , literature , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , radiology
Lila Ellen Gray’s Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life has the feel of a magnum opus. Ambitious in its breadth, it is clear from the get-go that this study is no small undertaking. Indeed, this is the first full-length ethnography of Portuguese fado published in English. Gray does not hedge by underpromising, and by the final afterword following six meticulously researched and theorized chapters, she has delivered a major contribution to fado scholarship.