Project concept

For this project we have been asked how we would bring Portuguese culture into a city like Manchester. This will later be translated into an existing building. Our first area of research is to create a small film based on our own findings of Portuguese culture such as music, dance, food, Architecture etc to create a certain mood that we would like to portray to any audience.

Sunday, 13 November 2011

Music





I began looking at music as a culture within Portugal as this was the area that stood out to me the most. The first words I used to search were "famous Portuguese music" and a type of music called Fado came up. I looked at it's historical background and learnt that Fado is widely used all over the country with many different styles of singing and meanings, although it is generally used to describe nostalgic feelings such as home sickness or past love etc.Carlos Saura stood out as I found hed used Fado music over a range of areas like film and dance routines (tango) as well as music videos. Here are a few pictures that caught my interest.
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