About this title: This book provides an in-depth ethnographic investigation of the greatly underestimated and under appreciated dynamic contributions of women singers, the cantaoras , to the creation, transmission and innovation of flamenco song. Situating the study of flamenco in the context of social and political currents that have shaped twentieth-century Spain and drawing on interview material with the cantaoras themselves, the author shows how flamenco is a complex of cultural practices at once musical, physical, verbal and social, and that the performance of flamenco involves the expression and ...
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780415943284ISBN:0415943280
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. List of illustrations acknowledgments chapter one: an andalusian journey chapter two: traditional and innovative musical practice in flamenco chapter three: ni*n*e*t*eenth-and early twentieth-century singers chapter four: social and political conditions for women and their impact on cantaoras in twentieth-century spain chapter five: the cantaora today chapter six: la herencia: traditions of flamenco in lebrija and granada chapter seven: women and the guitarra flamenca ... read more
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