World · funana
Funaná
Accordion pressure, island rhythm, postcolonial electricity.
Cape Verdean speed, longing, migration, dance, and rural memory turned into rhythm.
dust / iron / accordion heat
100canonical · encyclopedia readiness
rural Santiago · Praia urban · Lisbon migrant clubs · cassette networks
Visual archive
cassette
Cape Verdean cassette sleeve
Small-label diaspora circulation.
poster
Lisbon club poster
Immigrant dance night — Funaná on the bill.
liner
Bitori LP inner sleeve
Typography and wear as evidence.
document
Press clipping — rural revival
Newspaper evidence of post-independence reclamation.
Scan gallery
Small-label diaspora circulation.
Typography and wear as evidence.
PDF shelf
- Ethnomusicology field report (1984)
Accordion patterns on Santiago — annotated transcription.
Open PDF
Santiago field session
Recorded ferrinho patterns match dance floor tempo — not studio abstraction.
Cassette market, Lisbon
Hand-written labels often carry more historical truth than official discographies.