<DIV><I>Fado</I>, Portugal's most celebrated genre of popular music, can be heard in Lisbon clubs, concert halls, tourist sites, and neighborhood bars. <I>Fado</I> sounds traverse the globe, on internationally marketed recordings, as the "soul" of Lisbon. A <I>fadista</I> might sing until her throat hurts, the voice hovering on the break of a sob; in moments of sung beauty listeners sometimes cry. Providing an ethnographic account of Lisbon's <I>fado</I> scene, Lila Ellen Gray draws on research conducted with amateur <I>fado</I> musicians, <I>fadistas</I>, communities of listeners, poets, fans, and cultural brokers during the first decade of the 2000s. She demonstrates the power of music to transform history and place into feeling in a rapidly modernizing nation on Europe's periphery, a country no longer a dictatorship or an imperial power. Gray emphasizes the power of the genre to absorb sounds, memories, histories, and styles and transform them into new narratives of meaning and "soul."</div>