Prof. Ellen Gray on "Fado History, Fado Form" at BAM (12/03/11)

"Fado History, Fado Form"
Lila Ellen Gray
(Associate Professor of Music, Columbia University)
Part of the 2011 Next Wave Festival

Saturday, December 3, 2011
6:30pm
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
Hillman Attic Studio
(45min)
$10; $5 for Friends of BAM
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Ethnomusicologist and author of Resounding History: Politics of the Soul in Lisbon’s Fado (forthcoming, Duke University Press), traces this form from its development in early 19th-century Lisbon to today as heard in Tudo Isto É Fado.

Tudo Isto É Fado is a two day fado festival, Dec. 2 and 3, 2011 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.