Cultural history of flamenco. The barber and the guitar - Alberto del Campo and Rafael Cáceres

TECHNICAL SHEET

• ISBN: 978-84-2465-465-8
• Publisher: Almuzara
• Publication date: 2015
• Binding: Soft cover with flap
• Dimensions: 24 x 17 cm
• Spanish
• Number of pages: 541

SYNOPSIS

In Flamenco: Orientalism, Exoticism and the Spanish National Identity, Trinidad Pardo Ballester explores how the orientalization and exoticization of flamenco culture has affected the perception of Spanish national identity during the 19th and 20th centuries. The book analyzes how various orientalist and exotic discourses on flamenco culture, created by various representatives of three cultural movements (romanticism, modernism and postmodernism) and a political ideology (Francoism), contributed to shaping our modern Spanish national identity. Two myths are investigated: that of exotic Spain and that of Carmen, as well as their product: the genre of the “españolada” and the domestication of the exotic, exposed in the study of the Spanish mantilla and the figure of the bullfighter, given the relationship between flamenco and bullfighting. The transformation and flow of these myths through the studies of the four types of orientalization ultimately show their relevance in the formation and development of the different concepts of Spanish national identity.