Lila Ellen Gray
Humanities Scholarship
Spring 2022
(Music-Scholarship) – Ethnomusicologist/Cultural Anthropologist, Associate Professor of Music, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA – United States
The voice of Amália Rodrigues, the “Queen of Fado” and Portugal’s most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching sound, and international reach. Lila Ellen Gray will be completing an interdisciplinary book that uses Rodrigues’ first performance at the fabled Olympia Theater in Paris (1956) as a prism through which to examine the internationalization of peripheral popular musics and the making of female musical stardom in the mid-20th century.