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The Question of a Voice: With What Voice Will I Cry My Sad Fado

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  • Maria do Rosario Dias
  • Nadia Pereira Simoes
  • Ana Ferreira
  • Eva Coelho

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Fado is a traditional Portuguese music genre whose lyrics are emotionally rich, often referring to fate, love, longing, death, abandonment and helplessness. By singing these feelings a national identity is reinforced, either by the transgenerationality of the pain portrayed in these songs, or by evoking unique and untranslatable Portuguese words, such as Saudade (homesickness with melancholy) or Fado (fate in a sad and insurmountable way). In this manuscript, the universe of Fado is described and linked to a psychoanalytic meaning, through analyzing the relation between Saudade and depressiveness, what feels like to be a Fadista or the sublimation of trauma through Fado, as a song, that has been inscribed by UNESCO, on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2011.

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  • Maria do Rosario Dias & Nadia Pereira Simoes & Ana Ferreira & Eva Coelho, 2016. "The Question of a Voice: With What Voice Will I Cry My Sad Fado," International Journal of Social Science Studies, Redfame publishing, vol. 4(10), pages 106-115, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:rfa:journl:v:4:y:2016:i:10:p:106-115
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    Keywords

    fado; saudade; trauma; depressiveness; voice;
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    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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