Post by joustos on Jan 1, 2020 17:40:52 GMT
Recently I have been listening to online (youtube) FADO, the typical Portuguese music, which is the intensively emotional singing of Saudade (sadness, longing, melancholy, nostalgia....) Fado ["Fate"]has similarities with Flamenco [Andalusian, Spanish] and the typical Neapolitan songs. For example, one Fado song invites an emigrant to sing of his fate. A Neapolitan would respond by singing "O Sole mie"...…. (Then try: Fenesta ca lucive…..)
If you know Spanish or Italian, you will be able to read and understand a good essay in Portuguese by Pablo Javier Pe`rez Lopes:
www.academia.edu/4037673/Fado_Saudade_y_Tragedia