330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides an in-depth ethnographic investigation of the greatly underestimated and underappreciated contributions of women singers, the cantaoras , to the creation, transmission and innovation in flamenco song. Situating the study of flamenco in the context of social and political currents that have shaped twentieth-century Spain, and drawing on interviews with the cantaoras... Read more
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter One: An Andalusian Journey Chapter Two: Traditional and Innovative Musical Practice in Flamenco Chapter Three: Nineteenth- 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 Chapter Eight: The Flamenco Copla: Themes, Archetypes, Stereotypes Chapter Nine: The Social Construction of Flamenco Identity Chapter Ten: Identity, Aesthetics, and Emotion Glossary References Index
Biography
Loren Chuse
