Cape Verdean Blues

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   Add To My Trusted Moggers
   indiepixie says what's the closest equivalent?

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   Add To My Trusted Moggers
   Baudolino says It's been described as "a feeling of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one was fond of and which is lost. It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return." It originated as a concept when the Portuguese sailors first set off on their voyages into the unknown, heading south and west into the Atlantic. Only a few of them ever returned. Most of the great morna singers are women. It's broadly analogous to the fado, but with different instrumentation, and more of a shuffling beat

   Permalink posted 05/14/2008