The Reconstruction of Lisbon

The Reconstruction of Lisbon

Severa's Legacy and the Fado's Rewriting of Urban History

by Michael Colvin

131 pages· 2008· ISBN 9780838757086
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This text 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 to manifest a sub-rosa criticism of the Estado Novo's demolition of the Mouraria between the 1930s and 1970s.

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