The Reconstruction of Lisbon: Severa's Legacy and the Fado's Rewriting of Urban History

by Michael Colvin

This book exposes how Fado lyricists have appropriated popular novelist and playwright J lio Danta's forging of Mouraria fadista/ prostitute Maria Severa as a national heroine, and the Fado as the national song--in A Severa (1901) and A Severa: Pe a em Quatro Actos (1901)--to manifest a sub-rosa criticism of the Estado Novo's demolition of the Mouraria between the 1930s and 1970s. The lyricists exploit Dantas's fictionalization/dramatization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611483050
• ISBN13: 9781611483055
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 131 Pages