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A symbol of identity, Fado music is widely sung in Lisbon and represents a distinctly Portuguese multicultural synthesis of Afro-Brazilian music, local genres of song and dance, rural music, and urban song patterns of the early nineteenth century. Fado is typically performed by a solo male or female singer, accompanied by an acoustic guitar and the Portuguese guitarra, a pear-shaped twelve-stringed lute. It is performed professionally and informally in grass-root associations and often transmitted over successive generations within the same families.

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Place/region: Lisbon, Portugal, Europe
Series: 2011 Inscriptions on the Representative List
Type: Documentary
Duration: 10min
Production: Ivan Dias, producer.
Published in: 2011
Rights: DUVIDEO Fado Filmes; Zebra Produciones

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