Music forms and where they actually came from — the guitar's many lives, fado, son, cumbia.
The small Portuguese guitar that became Brazilian, then Hawaiian, and still belongs to everyone and no one, from Minho and Braga to choro.
The origin story sold to tourists — Moorish scales, salt air, the souls of sailors — was largely assembled in the twentieth century. What survives from the nineteenth is stranger.
Two regional guitars that stayed put in the Minho — while almost everything else about Portuguese music crossed an ocean.