Global Mediterranean. Postcolonial music histories (16th-20th centuries). IMS Intercongressional Symposium

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S14

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10 Jul 2025, 09:00

Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació – Universitat de València

120. Rosa canta e cunta. Voice, memory, and resistance of a folk singer of Mediterranean culture.

10/07/2025, 09:00

Free paper

Rosa Balistreri, a symbol of Sicilian popular music, played a central role in the rediscovery of oral tradition during the Italian folk revival in the 1960s (Tomatis 2016). Her journey unfolds within a context of socio-economic transformations and migrations that influenced the redefinition of Mediterranean musical identity (Nitti 1900). Like Amália Rodrigues for Portuguese fado, Balistreri...

138. Between Silence and Song: Rethinking Amália Rodrigues in Estado Novo Portugal

10/07/2025, 09:20

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Fado, a Portuguese urban folk genre, is often perceived as the Canção de Portugal [the song of Portugal], a symbol of Portuguese identity, the ‘alma’ [soul] of Portugal. However, given its prominence during the Salazar Dictatorship (1933-1974), one does not immediately associate fado with protest music - ‘explicit’ or ‘covert’. There is a lack of research on the subversive use of fado, perhaps...