The arrow - Juan Salido Freire

Data sheet

• EAN: 9788418709654
• ISBN: 978-84-18709-65-4
• Publisher: Almuzara
• Edition date: 2021
• Binding: Soft cover with flaps
• Dimensions: 14.5x22
• Language: Spanish
• Number of pages: 172

Synopsis

The saeta, a song made into a prayer, is undoubtedly a symbol of Andalusian Holy Week and also of other Spanish regions. Born as a plain cante, chanted, in the heat of the processions of the mendicant orders, it soon took root in the musical and popular religiosity of numerous cities and towns in our geography. This book, based on this reality, delves into the sinuous and complex process of his flamenco movement, carried out over a long period that covers the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century and that cannot be attributed to any specific cantaor but rather , rather, to the slow evolutionary maturation of the way of understanding and executing a main song, the seguiriya, by an ethnic group, the gypsy, accustomed to bringing popular couplets from the Castilian musical heritage to their land. The extensive documentation handled, the news published by the press of the time as well as the recordings that are indicated provide a very complete content to understand, value and appreciate a way of singing expressed with the indefinable feeling of jondo