Download or read book The Reconstruction of Lisbon written by Michael Colvin and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text exposes how Fado lyricists have appropriated popular novelist and playwright Julio Dantas' forging of Mouraria fadista/prostitute Maria Severa as a national heroine, and the Fado as Portugal's national song to manifest a sub-rosa criticism of the Estado Novo's demolition of the Mouraria between the 1930s and 1970s.