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FADO

What is fado?

Fado is a musical gendre very well known in Portugal. Usually only a fadista sings it, to the sound of the classic guitar, better know as "portuguese guitar". This expression that gives it its name comes from the Latin 'fatum'.

Portuguese Guitar

There are 3 types of the portuguese guitar: from Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra. The Lisbon guitar is the smallest of the three, with a low rounded box. The Portuguese guitar is a cordophone, whose harmonic box is peripheral, consisting of six pairs of strings

Lisbon guitar

Types of fado

Types of fado

There are several types of fado but the primitive or original are: the Chapel, Corrido and Castiço.

But there are many more, about 140, among which: Tango, Franklin, Alberto, Maria Vitória, etc. Despite the variety of types of fado, its structure is always based on the primitive but with small changes.

The most vulgar way of interpreting fado is in trio: a fado singer, a guitarist and a violist.

Fado to the Chapel

Fado Corrido

Fado sang and danced, sometimes referred to simply as fadinho, spread throughout the country, with a musical structure and origins different from the primitive Fado, or lamenting fado, it's this only sang (not danced).

Fado Castiço

Amália Rodrigues

Amália Rodrigues

She was born in Lisbon.

The birth record includes the date of July 23, 1920, however, the artist adopted July 1st as her birthday.

On April 19, 1985, she presented her first solo concert in Portugal at the Coliseu dos Recreios de Lisboa.

The Amália Rodrigues Foundation was officially established on 10 December 1999, two months after her death.

How did fado appear?

Some think that fado appeared from the songs of the Muslim people. Others think to be originated from the amalgam "Brazil/Portugal", when the portugueses lived with the lundum (music of brazilian slaves taken to Portugal).

...and why?

...and why?

A popular explanation for the origin of Lisbon fado refers to the songs of the Moors, who remained in the Mouraria neighborhood in the city of Lisbon after the Christian reconquest. The torment and sadness, so common in Fado, would have been inherited from those songs.

How did it progress?

How did progress?

In the first half of the twentieth century, already in Portugal, fado was acquiring great melodic richness and rhythmic complexity, becoming more literary and more artistic.

During the 30s and 40s, it was the golden age of the fado where the singers came out of the alleys to shine on the theater stages, in the movie lights, to be heard on the radio or on discs.

The Casas de Fado and the launch of the professional fado artist emerged.

Already in the middle of the twentieth century the fado began its conquest by the world.

It progressed or not?

Did it progress or not?

Yes, it did. Progress was made when the singers began to act on stage and have become better known around the world.

What risks do we have to lose it as a cultural heritage?

We can lose our culture.

What risks does it have in maintaining as a cultural heritage?

Its importance...

Its importance...

Fado may be indispensable for the construction of a powerful Portuguese, cultural and tourist brand, which is now reinventing itself from its interior authenticity and external influences. Perhaps it is in contradiction between the traditional environment and the opening to new conditions of production and reproduction, its integration in the market and national and international promotion.

Fado problems

Fado being an immaterial heritage can be lost easily.

What solutions exist to preserve it?

What solutions are there to preserve it?

Recording cd's and dvd's, performing on the streets, among people is a way to preserve fado.

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