192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain explores the efforts of the current government in southern Spain to establish flamenco music as a significant patrimonial symbol and marker of cultural identity. Further, it aims to demonstrate that these Andalusian efforts form part of the ambitious project of rethinking the nation-state of Spain, and of reconsidering the nature of national identity.... Read more
General Editor’s Preface; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Heritage Music; Chapter 2 The Musical Style Called Flamenco; Chapter 3 Indications of Flamenco; Chapter 4 Flamenco Hybridity; Chapter 5 Flamenco Transgressions; Chapter 6 Three Legs; Chapter 7 Autonomous Flamenco; Chapter 8 Flamenco Cinema; Chapter 9 Studio Flamenco; Chapter 10 The Agony of Andalucía; Postscript: UNESCO and Flamenco;
Biography
Professor Emeritus William Washabaugh, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
'Washabaugh has an uncanny ability to locate, synthesize, and explicate a wide array of critical issues related to flamenco. He meticulously surveys both historical and contemporary readings, as well as video and audio recordings, in order to generate an analysis that is as encouraging as it is thoughtful in its prognostication.' Ethnomusicology Review ’... an impeccable scholarship and writing style that is constantly thought-provoking and makes its reading highly pleasurable’. Bulletin of Spanish Studies
