Baudolino
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Cape Verdean Blues

Posted almost 4 years ago
reminds me that I really should post more morna music from Cabo Verde; the music reflects a feeling of wistful longing summed up by the Portuguese word saudade, which has no real equivalent in English
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  1. indiepixie
    indiepixie says what's the closest equivalent?
    Permalink posted 05/14/2008
  2. Baudolino
    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

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