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This book can be read in two different ways: as an introductory synthesis on Modern Portugal, or as a collection of twelve studies focusing on familiar aspects of the State formation of any modern nation throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this second reading, each chapter opens comparative perspectives on specific topics within some key fields of studies and international debates on modernity, including population, police, empire, technology, bureaucracy, social sciences, r

IF/00966/2014 UID/HIS/04209/2013 ; This chapter analyses the ways in which documentary film engaged with the 1974-75 Carnation Revolution in Portugal through both the direct involvement of filmmakers in the events and in more recent efforts to critically revisit the militant images shot at the time. Whereas the former has led to the creation of important documents for the history of this political event and of the forms of activism (political and aesthetic) that pervaded it, the latter constitute good opportunities to question the role of documentary film in the social memory of the revolution. ; authorsversion ; published

UID/HIS/04209/2013 ; The vast grassroots movement triggered by the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Portugal represented an enormous challenge to filmic and literary representation. This article analyses how writers and filmmakers tried to come to terms with the event, in particular how they managed to incorporate the proliferation of written and oral discourses during the revolutionary process into their narratives. In the context of an event so deeply influenced by Marxist political cultures that aimed to collapse the distinction between theory and practice, these narratives will also allow us to consider the challenges posed by the history of communism to cultural history. ; authorsversion ; published

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This article analyses the role of the sea in the early 1980s songs of singer-songwriter Fausto and pop band Heróis do Mar. Despite their formal and political differences, both use the sea as an insistent trope to discuss Portugal and its history. The sea thus becomes an important element in post-revolutionary Portuguese political cultures, appropriated by opposing political ideologies and cultural forms. And yet a close analysis of the compositions in Por Este Rio Acima/Up the River (released by Fausto in 1982), Heróis do Mar/Heroes of the Sea and Mãe/Mother (released by Heróis do Mar in 1981 and 1983, respectively) suggests that those ideological oppositions determine the ways in which the past is addressed by different musical genres. In this sense, the sea can be seen as a flexible object in which the tensions between the left and right – particularly in relation to the memory of Imperial past in post-colonial Portugal – are negotiated through the formal aspects, both musical and literary, of songs. More specifically, the contrasting ways in which Heróis do Mar and Fausto address the history of Portuguese Empire will have a dramatic impact in the rhythm of their songs and the syntax of their lyrics. It can thus be said that the politics of both pop band and singer-songwriter can be more decisively grasped at the level of form than content.