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Conseq Uences
Conver Sations
Conversat Ions
DE Los
Del Cante
Del Flamenco
El Chocolate
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Ethnicity
Finest Performers
Flamboyance
Flamenco Artistry
Flamenco Forms
Flamenco Guitar
Flamenco Lyrics
Flamenco Music
Flamenco Performances
Flamenco Song
Flamenco Style
Francoist Spain history
gender in music
Gitano Families
musicology research
Paco De
performance ethnography
political appropriation of musical traditions
Popular culture
RAFAEL ROMERO
Romani identity studies
Spanish cultural studies
Spit Curl
Visceral responses
Wo Rdsworth
Product details
- ISBN 9781859731710
- Weight: 790g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Flamenco is renowned for its passion and flamboyance. Yet because it generates such visceral responses, it is often overlooked as a site for subtler discourses. This absorbing book articulates powerful and convincing arguments on such key subjects as ethnicity, irony, authenticity, the body and resistance. Franco's 'politics of original sin' had left its mark on every aspect of Spanish life between 1936 and 1975, and flamenco music was no exception. Although widely portrayed as an apolitical, even frivolous form of entertainment, flamenco is shown here to have played a role in both the strategies of Franco's supporters and of those who opposed him. The author explores how the meaning of flamenco shifts according to the social, cultural and historical contexts within which it appears. In so doing, he demonstrates that flamenco is an ideal subject for analyzing the construction and appropriation of popular culture, given the way in which it was developed for middle-class audiences, converted into grand spectacle, and conscripted to serve political ends.
William Washabaugh Professor of Anthropology,University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
