01056nas a2200121 4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100001200043245004400055490000700099520081400106022001400920 2012 d1 aJ. Pais00aFado danced in Brazil: cultural passer.0 v153 aAmong a multitude of possible affiliations to music and dance, african-Brazilian lundu reached a justified importance in the history of fado, recently approved as Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. In this matrix, fate had danced marks a great sensuality and thus arose in taverns and brothels of bohemian Lisbon midnineteenth century. When aburguesar up - and especially with the advent of the Salazar dictatorship (1926) - fado from Lisbon no longer danced, losing much of its expressiveness body. However, in the Lowlands, a fate that still survives since the time of slavery, danced with palms, tap dancing, tambourines and guitars. Drawing on ethnographic and historical sources, this contribution argues against corporal practices associated with fado by reference to their ideological contexts. a1415-4676