Fado: Cultural Heritage of Humanity

[Damião de Góis]

Fado music has been considered cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO today.

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 lute 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. 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.

http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/in...00011&RL=00563

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[Comte Arnau]

About time! Parabéns!

Btw, o que acha de Carminho?

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[heathen_son]

Absolutely beautiful music. Portugal should be proud But it speaks nothing of my cultural heritage. How dare you UNESCO.

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The cultural heritage of humanity? Doesn't that amount to EVERYTHING?

[Damião de Góis]

About time! Parabéns!

Btw, o que acha de Carminho?

You mean her or the music?



I don't like the music that much to be honest, but i also have to say i don't know it. As for her, i think there are better looking fado singers in my opinion:

[Comte Arnau]

I heard her sing a capella in a program some days ago and her voice sounded great, that's why I asked you.

Damn, Filipa Cardoso looks hot in that pic.

[Damião de Góis]

I heard her sing a capella in a program some days ago and her voice sounded great, that's why I asked you.

Damn, Filipa Cardoso looks hot in that pic.

I am not a fado expert, i really don't know her. I do have my favorite fado songs though. Which include the one i posted in the first post and these:

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and a few others

[Comte Arnau]

and a few others

Such as this?

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[Damião de Góis]

Of course
But that is not Fado, and neither is this:

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Fado doesn't have violins or cellos or other instruments that Madredeus or Deolinda uses. Traditionally it should only use guitars. Apart from that, a portuguese guitar is mandatory and those two bands don't use it:

[Comte Arnau]

Of course
But that is not Fado, and neither is this:

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Fado doesn't have violins or cellos or other instruments that Madredeus or Deolinda uses. Traditionally it should only use guitars. Apart from that, a portuguese guitar is mandatory and those two bands don't use it:

Well, it looked to me like a fado variation. You know, like the flamenco fusions and so on.

[Catrau]

I'm not a big fado fan but I do like some particular features. I absolutely love the sounds of a portuguese guitar (12 stings) either playing fado, Coimbra fado or any other kind of popular music.
I refuse to accept those supposed intellectuals from Lisbon that see moorish culture in everything that moves. I don't mind that they like moorish culture, I understand their sadness because they can't find moorish iconography despite their efforts. What I do not accept is their efforts to try to convince the world of the contrary for example by trying to coin fado as a moorish song. Fado arose 700 years after moorish rule in Lisbon even if some may have been left behind.
I especially like Ana Moura and her new fado with new instruments and I live Mariza too, she can be fantastic. They both brought down that barrier which often associates fado to a so called melancholy, sadness and introspection of the portuguese people. Puritans don't like them because of this but I sincerely would like to know where did this so called stereotype came from, because I've lived here always and I find this whole idea an absolute nonsense.


Ana Moura - Não é um fado qualquer (not an ordinary fado)
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Mariza - Oh gente da minha terra (Oh people of my land)
Very traditional way in concert in Lisbon
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The same song with chameleonic Mariza singing to tens of thousands with black leather jacket.
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