Below, you will find a list of the articles and videos/podcasts you will be expected to read/listen to in advance of each of the activites on the trip. We hope you enjoy them!

Monday, March 10th

For the morning walking tour, led by Dr. Maria do Mar Pereira:

• Gray, Lila Ellen (2011) "Fado’s City", Anthropology and Humanism, 36 (2): 141-163. (This was the reading distributed in the study trip meeting. If you weren't at the meeting, you can pick up a hard copy of this from outside Maria's office.)
  
• Additional optional reading (especially useful for those going on the evening trip to a fado house): Gray, Lila Ellen (2007) "Memories of Empire, Mythologies of the Soul: Fado Performance and the Shaping of Saudade", Ethnomusicology, 51 (1): 106-130.
• this short documentary on fado in Alfama (this was shown at the study trip meeting on Thursday, February 27th)
  
• the Wikipedia entry on saudade (which is the feeling that is sung about in most fado songs)

For the afternoon lecture on the MYPLACE project, led by Dr. Nuno de Almeida Alves and Dr. David Cairns:

• this documentary from the MYPLACE project (this was the documentary shown at the screening on Thursday, February 27th)
  
• this overview of statistical facts on Portugal
  
• these videos, podcasts and articles: (as you read/watch them, think about how the current situation, and protests, in Portugal are being represented in foreign media)
  
  • "Portugal's Reverse Migration"
    
  • "Portuguese Just Shrug and Go On in the Face of Cuts and Job Losses" 

  • "Portugal at flashpoint as austerity lights fires in mild-mannered populace"

  • "Portugal's fed-up youth pack and go as their nation slides into reverse"

  • "Portugal: The Beginning of Something New"
    
  • "Portugal is race blind, but not for the right reasons"
    
  • "Portugal feels pinch of austerity measures"
  • "Portugal adopts tough austerity budget amid massive protests"
    

  • "Eurozone crisis: Portugal protests against austerity"

Tuesday, March 11th

For the afternoon lecture on Urban Visual Cultures, by Dr. Ricardo Campos:

• Campos, Ricardo and Simões, José (2014) "Digital participation at the margins: online circuits of rap music by Portuguese Afro-descendant youth", Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 22 (1): 87-106.
• Campos, Ricardo (2013) "Graffiti writer as superhero", European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 16 (2): 155-170.