Key Characteristics of Fado:
- Orginated 1820s Portugal
- Favoured by the maritime proletariat - porter traders, doc workers, sailors. The original performances were from sailors who would dance.
- Usually focuses on 'poor people'
- Amilia Rodrigues popularised it worldwide - 'the Queen of Fado'.
- Linked to medieval troubadours (poets)
- Sung at night, almost in the dark.
- To applaud in Coimbra you cough, as if you're clearing your throat.
- It is usually chracterised as mournful and filled with longing. A sentiment of resignation, feelings of loss.
- Often about the sea.
- Comes from the Latin word 'fadum' - English word for fate.
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| Luís Catarino |
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| Street Art for Fado |
Often the more modern interpretations of Fado take a highly illustrative approach. Favouring red, white and black - connoting a latin style of illustration. Perhaps something like this could be taken forward - although would this really be challenging myself into using a new medium?
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