The voice of Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999), the “Queen of Fado” and Portugal's most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach. Amalia à l'Olympia (1957) is...
Ellen Gray is a professor of Music at Dickinson College., Gray, Lila Ellen. Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013., Fado, Portugal's most celebrated genre of popular music, can...
Gray, Lila Ellen. Fado's City. Anthropology & Humanism 36, no. 2 (2011): 141-163., Ellen Gray is a professor of Music at Dickinson College., For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website., and 'Fado's...
Gray, Lila Ellen. Listening for Affect: Musical Ethnography and the Challenge of/to Affect. Culture, Theory and Critique (Article published online January 17, 2021), 19 pp....
Gray, Lila Ellen. Listening Low-Cost: Ethnography, the City, and the Tourist Ear. In The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking, edited by Suzel A. Reily and Katherine Brucher, 417-428. New York: Routledge,...
Ellen Gray is a professor of Music at Dickinson College., This article examines the circulation and reception of a song that catalyzed a youth movement and widespread protest in 2011 Portugal. Through a theorization of...
