Abstract

PAIS, José Machado. The fates of fado: plots, chronotopes and cultural transits. Etnográfica [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.1, pp.219-235. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.5210.

A kind of fado from slavery times took me to Quissamã, in Brazil, and I was intrigued by what I would find out. In the first place, for whatever reason, fado singers share the belief that fado belongs to God. Secondly, this God’s fado is performed with dancing and stepping, reminding fandango moves, even though it is well known that the stepped fandango was one of the most persecuted dances in colonial Brazil for its bad reputation. Attempting to decode these enigmatic features, I explore transits of fado and fandango in a plot involving stances of dissemination, transformation, variation and re-composition, concluding that the knots in this plot are tied and untied in the chronotopes of such transits.

Keywords : beliefs; chronotopes; fado; Quissamã’s fado; fandango; cultural transits.

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