Flamenco singing and cultural memory - Florian Homann

Technical data sheet

• EAN: 9788491922230
• ISBN: 978-84-9192-223-0
• Publisher: Iberoamericana
• Publication date: 2021
• Binding: Softcover
• Dimensions: 22 x 15
• Spanish
• Number of pages: 78 8

Synopsis

This book focuses on the lyrics of flamenco singing as literary texts. Its proposal is that a flamenco verse does not have a fixed meaning, but rather it is the particular combination of different verses in their specific context that generates the oral poems of the song. In flamenco, texts from various sources are sung, which can be either fragments of other traditional manifestations or texts composed by authors. Although many old texts are recited, the creation of new lyrics has always been, and continues to be, an important additional source. Singers have certain repertoires of texts that are part of their collective heritage and they usually recite them from memory, which takes on a crucial relevance in flamenco. In this research, the majority of the corpus of texts comes from flamenco recitals that the author has attended live. Because different short stanzas are usually linked together in a compositional unit that is composed according to musical aspects, the lyrics of a song emerge in its specific performance. These ephemeral poems, like open networks of intertexts, bring together the semantic values ​​of the different textual fragments and give rise to multiple possible meanings. Thus, with respect to the lyrics of contemporary flamenco, we can still speak of a specific type of traditional oral poetry, dynamic and lively, although its transmission is largely mediated.