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Carminho 2009 by Luis Carvalhal in Unesco ICH website
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Fado, urban popular song of Portugal
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Fado is a performance genre incorporating music and poetry widely practised by various communities in Lisbon. It represents a Portuguese multicultural synthesis of Afro-Brazilian sung dances, local traditional genres of song and dance, musical traditions from rural areas of the country brought by successive waves of internal immigration, and the cosmopolitan urban song patterns of the early nineteenth century. Fado songs are usually performed by a solo singer, male or female, traditionally accompanied by a wire-strung acoustic guitar and the Portuguese guitarra – a pear-shaped cittern with twelve wire strings, unique to Portugal, which also has an extensive solo repertoire. The past few decades have witnessed this instrumental accompaniment expanded to two Portuguese guitars, a guitar and a bass guitar. Fado is performed professionally on the concert circuit and in small ‘Fado houses’, and by amateurs in numerous grass-root associations located throughout older neighbourhoods of Lisbon.
Community or culture | Comunidad o cultura | Comunidade ou cultura
Communities of Lisbon
Practitioners, Autor | Practicantes, Autores | Praticantes, Autores
Museum | Museo | Museu
Place | Local | Local
Lisboa
Country | País
Portugal
Language | Idioma
Portuguese

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2007 by DUVIDEO Fado Filmes, Zebra Produciones in Unesco ICH website
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Helder Moutinho e Misia 2009 by José Frade in Unesco ICH website
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Argentina Santos 2009 by José Frade in Unesco ICH website
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Rodrigo 2009 by José Frade in Unesco ICH website
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Fado is performed professionally on the concert circuit and in small ‘Fado houses’, and by amateurs in numerous grass-root associations located throughout older neighbourhoods of Lisbon. Informal tuition by older, respected exponents takes place in traditional performance spaces and often over successive generations within the same families. The dissemination of Fado through emigration and the world music circuit has reinforced its image as a symbol of Portuguese identity, leading to a process of cross-cultural exchange involving other musical traditions.
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Recreational activities | Actividades lúdicas | Actividades lúdicas, Show and entertainment | Espectáculo e divertimento, Artistic and correlated manifestations | Espectáculo y entretenimiento | Manifestações artísticas e correlacionadas, Musical and Correlated Manifestations | Manifestaciones musicales y correlacionadas | Manifestações musicais e correlacionadas
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