Lisbon Stories - Fado Route
History of Fado
Attempting to explain fado is pointless. Those who have tried, have tangled themselves up in contradictory references and dates and lost the trail completely. Some say its origins lie in the songs of the Moors, the people who founded the Mouraria quarter in Lisbon after the Christian reconquest. Others believe that it replaced the medieval chanson de geste, while others speculate whether it evolved out of modinha, a popular form of song in the 18th and 19th centuries and the result of a fusion with Angolan lundu.
But does its origin really matter? Why, if its mystique is so appealing? Listen to it, and preferably in its local habitat, the streets of Lisbon’s traditional quarters, and lose yourself in the improvised guitar playing. That’s how you find it.
The word fado comes from the Latin for fate. Having something as serious and sobering as fate at its root has marked its character. That is why strong emotions, love and heartbreak, betrayal, jealousy, revenge and tragedy are such frequent themes in its lyrics. But despite what people may say, fado is not always melancholic. Frequently brazen and bohemian, no other music so perfectly depicts the qualities of the people who inspired it: the varinas (fishwives), the sailors, the bohemians, the young girls – all the hubbub of Lisbon, in other words.
The only thing known for sure about the origins of fado is that it emerged in the heart of this city, the product of a cultural melting pot where the Moors mixed with seafarers. And this thus gave rise to the enamoured hold the ancient quarters and their Moorish-style alleyways running down to the riverside continue to have over it.
Though traditionally the music of the people, Lisbon’s fado has also seduced the bohemian aristocracy. Its history includes the myth of the amorous involvement of an aristocrat, the Count of Vimioso, with Maria Severa Onofriana (1820-1846), a prostitute hailed for her talents as a singer. The legend is the source of many fado songs and it has even been the inspiration behind a novel.
The oldest form of fado is fado do marinheiro, or mariner’s fado, which formed the basis of all the others. From it, this form of music branched off into various styles, some of which are fado castiço, fado aristocrata, fado corrido and fado boémio.
Until the habit of listening to fado in specific establishments became the norm, it was sung when and wherever its amateur singers took the urge. Only from the 1930s onwards did the casas de fado, or fado houses, rise up in force, above all in Bairro Alto. With this development, some of its improvisation was lost, but not enough to see the tasquinhas, where spontaneous performances take place inspired by the mood of the moment, vanish for good.
The first records produced in Portugal date from the dawn of the 20th century, but the local market at the time was still in its early stages while international listeners were completely unaware of Lisbon’s strange and hypnotic music.
Fado’s golden age began in the 1940s. From that point until the 1960s the number of talented performers multiplied and acknowledged stars, such as Amália, appeared who finally carried fado to every corner of the world and established its place in the pantheons of world music.
More recently, a new generation of fado singers, or fadistas, and instrumentalists have introduced new sounds, creating a fusion that has given it surprising facets without changing its character. In November 2011, fado was added to the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage by Unesco. And, of course, the history of fado doesn’t end here...
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Lisbon Stories - Almada Route
Almada Negreiros
(1893-1970)
An artist with a yearning for the future
When the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon) assembled over 400 works for a major exhibition to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Almada Negreiros’s birth, one of the aspects that most impressed visitors was the diversity of work he produced.
Painting, ceramics, mosaics, stained glass, drawings, caricature, scenography, film, plays, literature, poetry, essays, dramaturgy and ballets were the “instruments” the artist used to compose one of the most remarkable “scores” in 20th-century Portugal.
A man of his era, the art he left us reflected not just his innate talent, but also the influence of the Modernist movement, which was born at the start of the last century and endured, in Portugal, until the 1970s. The Modernists advocated an unrestricted, non-compartmentalised art in which techniques could intermix freely to create something new.
This incessant quest was the key to its “extraordinary artistic dispersal”, as its surprising eclecticism was described at the time. Not by chance, two years before his death, at 75, Almada created a mural entitled Começar [Beginning] for the Gulbenkian Foundation. More than a title for a new artwork, Começar is a statement. It reveals the attitude to life of this intrepid Portuguese Modernist, who was also a leading figure of the Futurist movement which urged a break with the past and a celebration of modern technology and geometry, the artistic expression of mathematics.
Born in São Tomé and Príncipe on 7th April 1893, José Sobral de Almada Negreiros moved to Lisbon with his family as a child, where he spent most of his life. He went to a Jesuit-run school where he developed an interest in the classics, but he never had any formal training in the arts.
Even without encouragement, his vocation soon became evident. His first works were humorous drawings and his first signed work dates from 1911. As a youth, he frequented the debates in the Baixa district of Lisbon and became familiar with leading figures in the art world and intelligentsia, such as the poets Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Sá Carneiro, and the painters Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso and Santa Rita Pintor. With them, he formed the Orpheus Group, responsible for the introduction of Modernism in the Portuguese arts and letters.
While still a young man (1919), Almada was drawn to Paris where the Modernist movement was in full swing. For about a year, he wrote and painted there while doing a wide variety of jobs to sustain himself.
He only left Portugal again in 1927, when he settled in Madrid. During that time, he socialised with the poet Garcia Lorca, the filmmaker Luís Buñuel, and met Marinetti, the founder of Futurism. During his stay in Spain, he created artwork for the Ciudad Universitaria de Madrid and was responsible for decorating the San Carlos and Barceló cinemas and the Muñoz Seca Theatre.
Though irreverent and, as a leading member of the Orpheus Group, set on giving “public taste a slap in the face”, as the Russian poet Mayakovsky, one of Modernism’s advocates, proclaimed, Almada Negreiros was never a political activist. An important part of his work was commissioned by architects and engineers working for Portugal’s dictatorial Estado Novo (New State) (1926-1974), such as Duarte Pacheco and Pardal Monteiro, but through it contributed decisively to the building of 20th-century Portugal.
Lisbon Stories - Saramago Route
Biography José Saramago
José Saramago was born on 16th November 1922 in Azinhaga, a village in the province of Ribatejo that was as humble as his own family. Although he grew up in a house without books, he soon fell in love with them. He first came into contact with literature at school, but later, when he had to leave to start work as a toolmaker, the thrall in which books held him ensured he was a regular visitor to his local library.
Intellectually curious, the young Saramago became an autodidact and a man committed to the causes of his time. An opponent of Salazar and his dictatorship, he joined the Communist Party in 1969. He was also a staunch critic of the Catholic Church, the target of choice of some of the books he would later write, such as “Baltasar and Blimunda” (1982), “The Gospel According to Jesus Christ” (1991) and “Cain” (2009).
Until devoting himself fully to his literary career, which he did from 1976 onwards, he had various professions. He was a draughtsman, health and social worker, translator, editor and journalist.
His first novel, “Land of Sin”, dates from 1947. It took him another 19 years to publish his second book, a volume of poetry called “Possible Poems”. In the years that followed, his literary output was regular and wide-ranging, encompassing fields as varied as poetry, novels, short stories and plays.
As a novelist, he achieved recognition when he won the “Cidade de Lisboa” award for “Raised from the Ground”, which became an international bestseller. For the novel “Baltasar and Blimunda” (1982), considered his most iconic work, he received the “Pen Clube Português” award. “The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis” (1984) won the “Prémio da Crítica”, “Prémio Dom Diniz”, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the “Pen Clube Português” award again.
A year later, he was made a Commander of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword (in 1998 he was promoted to the rank of a Grand Collar of the same Order, an honour generally reserved only for heads of state). In 1995, he was awarded the highest accolade in Portuguese literature, the “Prémio Camões”, and three years later won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Translated into 42 languages, his work began to gain recognition from the film industry in 2008 when his novel “Blindness” (1995), directed by Fernando Meirelles, was adapted for the big screen. This was followed in 2010 by the film adaptation of a short story from the book “The Lives of Things” which was made into the film “Embargo” by the Portuguese director António Ferreira.
After marrying his second wife, the Spanish journalist Pilar del Rio, he settled in Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, in 1993. Always aware of the world around him, his literary achievements never prevented him from devoting his energies to the causes which interested him. In 2007, he set up the Fundação José Saramago to defend and disseminate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and environmental problems, but he did not live long enough to witness its inauguration in 2012 at the Casa dos Bicos in Lisbon.
He died in Spain on 18th June 2010, but the foundation he gave his name to continues to promote the cultural and social project presided over by his wife, Pilar del Rio.
ALFAMA (Clip) - Lisbon Story, Dir Wim Wenders (1994) HD 60fps
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Lisbon Day: 9 Lisboa Story Centre.
Lisbon Day: 9 Lisboa Story Centre.
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Nightlife in Lisbon Story Centre, Portugal
This may be the best place to begin your tour of Lisbon. The centre, via 6 beautiful exhibits, takes you through the story of Lisbon came to be, by the way of the 5 most important events in Lisbon’s history. This covers the period of Portugal’s first settlers and their myths and legends; the creation of the city and its increasing global role; the 1755 earthquake and its impact; the era of rebuilding and reforming the city’s image; and finally, the general state of the city today. The last exhibition is a virtual one which shows, by photographs, the evolution of different areas of the city over the years. Occasionally, the centre also organises temporary exhibitions so keep and an eye on its online calendar for upcoming events.
Discover Lisbon - a travel story
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Feel the atmosphere of the old town, climb the Almada hill to the Cristo Rei and gorgeous viewpoint on the Little Golden Gate bridge, the 25 de Abril bridge. Walk along the Tagus river, near the Oriente Station to discover the unsuspected new Lisbon, made of steel, glass and concrete... and don't forget to grab a glass of porto wine and a Pastel de Nata on the way ;)
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