Flamenco Revolution - Alvaro de la Fuente Espejo (Book)

Technical data sheet

• Publisher: Flamenco Greetings Editions
• Publication date: 2020
• Binding: Soft cover with flaps
• Dimensions: 22 x 15.5
• Spanish
• Number of pages: 412

Synopsis

In Flamencum Revolutum, dear friend, do not look for erudition, interest in pontificating or literary exquisiteness, qualities - or defects, depending on how you look at it - far removed from the author's way of thinking, feeling and acting. If you feel like it, you will find a dose of simple and sincere flamenco experience of a very varied kind (in La Puente, at school, in the field of controversy or with the musical dimension of singing): that of the last decade of Álvaro de la Fuente in his relationship with flamenco. An experience publicized, in a very dispersed way, in other places, but now collected and synthesized, with no other pretension than to share it with the interested party, in the pages that we edit from Saludos Flamencos, with the collaboration of the peculiar Agorero de lo Jondo, a curious character who introduces each of the five chapters with a lively chat with the author himself.

However, the author has finally dared to show the most demanding fans his reflections, threaded together over the last three years in the solitude of research activity, around the Zángano Flamenco, a song of which we knew almost nothing. With firm decision, enormous objectivity and great responsibility towards his town and people, Álvaro has delved into the possible origins, variants, relationships and legends of this cante de corte abandolao that was recorded for the first time by the maestro Fosforito in 1957. The result: a set of well-founded reflections that will bring us closer, with rigor, to its authentic historical and musical reality. Perhaps not everything has been said about this song, but a path has been opened for future investigations.