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fado
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fa·do  (fä, f)
n. pl. fa·dos
A sad Portuguese folksong.
[Portuguese, from Latin ftum, fate; see fate.]
fado Portuguese [ˈfɑːdu]
n
(Music, other) a type of melancholy Portuguese folk song
[literally: fate]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.fado - a sad Portuguese folksong
folk ballad, folk song, folksong - a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
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I shall examine the evolution of the leit-motifs of the hermitage, the procession and the historical and poetic avatars of the song's protagonist, Rosa Maria, in the later fados novos, to conclude that Gabriel de Oliveira's 'Ha Festa na Mouraria' has inspired a subversive trend in the fado novo: the idealization of a pre-Republican Mouraria--emblematized by the hermitage and its procession--as an alternative to the Estado Novo's notion of progress.
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