America in flamenco - Faustino Núñez

Technical data sheet

• EAN: 9788409294831
• ISBN: 978-84-09-29483-1
• Publisher: Flamencopolis Editions
• Publication date: 2021
• Binding: Soft cover with flaps
• Dimensions: 15x21
• Language: Spanish
• Number of pages: 598

Synopsis

This book is not only about cantes de ida y vuelta, those songs of obvious Hispanic American origin that, after being suitably flamencoised, ended up being integrated into the jondo repertoire. It is about putting the history of flamenco into question and placing it in an Atlantic perspective. The task has not been easy, the subject is delicate to approach with the rigour expected of a well-documented study. To carry it out it has been necessary to challenge a good part of the more or less accepted dogmas around the processes that gave rise to flamenco.

Because of the ethnocentrism that we Westerners suffer from, even in the 21st century, we still have an important subject pending regarding historical science: that the study of Europe and European things take into account the American horizon among its main sources of cultural wealth. If the American provinces of the old continent, Seville and Cadiz, not only forged flamenco but also played a leading role in the Atlantic enterprise, the musical genre that concerns us must then be much more American than flamencology has traditionally wanted to recognize. And this is what this book is about.

CONTENT:

Foreword by José Manuel Gamboa
Introduction
In ten years more was discovered than in a thousand
Seville, port and gateway to America
Havana, Veracruz, Callao, Rio de la Plata and... New Orleans
African Americans
Cadiz, a little cup of silver and gold
America in the "new music"
Atlantic dances
Flamenco comings and goings
The Indian fandango
La Petenera, from Veracruz to deep singing
Syrups and zapateos
From the point to the guajira
The Tango King
For tangos
Silverio, the Oriental
The directions of the rumba
Songs from the River Plate
My Colombian
The Peruvian drawer (and the tres)
Flamenco jazz, rock, pop

Conclusion: Flamenco, a genre of coming and going
QR Codes Auditions
Onomastic and subject index
Literature