Fado and the Urban Poor

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Fado and the Urban Poor in Portuguese Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s - Dr. Michael Colvin

Colvin studies the evolution of Fado music as the soundtrack to the Portuguese talkie. He analyzes the most successful Portuguese films of the first two decades of the Estado Novo era, showing how directors used the national song to promote the values of the young Regime regarding the poor inhabitants of Lisbon’s popular neighborhoods…