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The Reconstruction of Lisbon: Severa's Legacy and the Fado's Rewriting of Urban History
The Reconstruction of Lisbon Severa's Legacy and the Fado's Rewriting of Urban History
Author: Michael Colvin
"The Reconstruction of Lisbon" exposes how Fado lyricists have appropriated popular novelist and playwright Julio Dantas' forging of Mouraria fadista/ prostitute Maria Severa as a national heroine, and the Fado as Portugal's national song - in "A Severa" (1901) and "A Severa: Peca em Quatro Actos" (1901) - to manifest a sub-rosa criticism of the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780838757086
ISBN-10: 0838757081
Publication Date: 7/30/2008
Pages: 131
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Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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