Alfama, Mouraria e Bairro Alto:distintas territorialidades e a constituição de processos diferenciados de territorialização do fado na cidade de Lisboa

Abstract

The fado, urban popular song whose origins go back to the 19th century Portuguese, semiografa, currently, different cultural territories in the city of Lisbon. In this work, we seek to understand and analyze the identity processes, territorialities and movements of territorialization -deterritorialization and reterritorialization -engendered by fado in three traditional neighborhoods of the Portuguese capital, namely Alfama, Mouraria and Bairro Alto, which creation of geosymbols, new territorialities and other identities, besides reinforcing the already consecrated idea of these districts as the cultural territories of fado par excellence. From this analysis, thematic maps of the fado territories were produced in Lisbon. Based on Human Geography, especially in Cultural Geography, a theoretical-conceptual bias was adopted that relates the discussion between territory, territorialities, soundscape and conniving, as well as identity representation. The methodological course was designed based on a qualitative approach, defining the case study as the main outline of the research, and aiming to understand the phenomenon studied within its context. To do so, three sources of data were taken into account: documentary research; direct and participant observation; and the interview, based on oral history. In addition to the classic methods mentioned above, the history of fado and also of its characters, as well as the poems, were used to illustrate the points raised throughout the work in order to reinforce identities and bring up me mories and memories. The historical support proposed is from 1974, the year that the Carnation Revolution began, to date, taking into account the importance of the date both for the history of Portugal and for the history of fado itself.