Lives and Legends of Flamenco

Lives and Legends of Flamenco
Author: D. E. Pohren
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Dancers
ISBN: 9781499169027

the people who have been influntial in flamenco, histories,and characters

The Golden Age of the Spanish Dance

The Golden Age of the Spanish Dance
Author: Michael 'miguel' Bernal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2020-07-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781716932991

This printed material is a chronological history of dance, bringing together many different dancers and styles, a unification of Spanish art-forms. We have seen a handful of dance biographies always declaring the career of their subject as the most important. Let's place into perspective that we had many dancers during the same time frame and each one contributed, some more than others. Noting the artistic contributions made by these performers made it easier to review the period of Spanish dance as an 'era'. We took these performers and placed them into one account, foretelling how this style of dance contributed to the overall American style of the Spanish dance. Americans Ted Shawn, Ruth St. Denis, La Meri, Carmelita Maracci and Ballet Russes Anna Pavlova, Adoph Bolm and Leonide Massine were all in some way affected by the Spanish dance. Even Hollywood and Broadway were instrumental in the birth of Hispanic culture in the country. In this first book I have highlighted the careers of two artists, La Argentina and Vicente Escudero, both worked together forming a part-time partnership important in this early era. Later Spaniards who exemplified the art-form in America were La Argentinita, Pilar Lopez, Rosario & Antonio, Jose Greco, and Nana Lorca whos reflections are mirrored within these pages and later editions.

Flamenco

Flamenco
Author: Barbara Thiel-Cramér
Publisher: Remark AB
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1991
Genre: Flamenco
ISBN: 9789197125925

Provides a history of flamenco by examining its myths, vocabulary, and traditions, and introduces dancers, guitarists, and singers association with this dance

Gypsies and Flamenco

Gypsies and Flamenco
Author: Bernard Leblon
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2003
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781902806051

This definitive work on the contribution of the Gypsies to the development of flamenco traces their influences on music from their long migration from India, through Iran, Turkey, Greece, and Hungary, to their persecution in Spain. This new updated edition provides fuller explanations of some of the technical terms and an invaluable biographical dictionary of 200 of the foremost Gypsy flamenco artists from its origins to the present day, as well as a discography and videography.

Sonidos Negros

Sonidos Negros
Author: K. Meira Goldberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2019
Genre: Music
ISBN: 019046691X

How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor became Black, and how this figure, enacted in terms of a minstrelized Gitano, paradoxically came to represent Spain itself. The imagined Gypsy about which flamenco imagery turns dances on a knife's edge delineating Christian and non-Christian, White and Black worlds. This figure's subversive teetering undermines Spain's symbolic linkage of religion with race, a prime weapon of conquest. Flamenco's Sonidos Negros live in this precarious balance, amid the purposeful confusion and ruckus cloaking embodied resistance, the lament for what has been lost, and the values and aspirations of those rendered imperceptible by enslavement and colonization.

Flamenco

Flamenco
Author: Claus Schreiner
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1990
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781574670134

Written by a group of dedicated flamenco enthusiasts, this book traces the history and development of the art of flamenco, that proud, soulful, stirring folk music and dance created by the gypsies of the Andalusian region of Spain in the 19th century. The essays examine the musical, artistic, and spiritual aspects of flamenco as well as its social context and history. The great performers both past and present are identified and discussed.

Flamenco Nation

Flamenco Nation
Author: Sandie Holguín
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0299321800

How did flamenco—a song and dance form associated with both a despised ethnic minority in Spain and a region frequently derided by Spaniards—become so inexorably tied to the country’s culture? Sandie Holguín focuses on the history of the form and how reactions to the performances transformed from disgust to reverance over the course of two centuries. Holguín brings forth an important interplay between regional nationalists and image makers actively involved in building a tourist industry. Soon they realized flamenco performances could be turned into a folkloric attraction that could stimulate the economy. Tourists and Spaniards alike began to cultivate flamenco as a representation of the country's national identity. This study reveals not only how Spain designed and promoted its own symbol but also how this cultural form took on a life of its own.

World of Dance

World of Dance
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Barefoot Books
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2019-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1782858865

Say it with dance! This gorgeous collection will enchant young dancers with stories from eight cultures, including the Polka in the Czech Republic, Limbo in the West Indies and the Waltz in Germany.

The Art of Flamenco

The Art of Flamenco
Author: D. E. Pohren
Publisher: Morón de la Frontera, Spain : Society of Spanish Studies
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1967
Genre: Flamenco
ISBN:

Music and Gender

Music and Gender
Author: Tullia Magrini
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2003-06-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780226501659

Although scholars have long been aware of the crucial roles that gender plays in music, and vice versa, the contributors to this volume are among the first to systematically examine the interactions between the two. This book is also the first to explore the diverse, yet often strikingly similar, musics of the areas bordering the Mediterranean from comparative anthropological perspectives. From Spanish flamenco to Algerian raï, Greek rebetika to Turkish pop music, Sephardi and Berber songs to Egyptian belly dancers, the contributors cover an exceedingly wide range of geographic and musical territories. Individual essays examine musical behavior as representation, assertion, and sometimes transgression of gender identities; compare men's and women's roles in specific musical practices and their historical evolution; and explore how music and gender relate to such issues as ethnicity, nationality, and religion. Anyone studying the musics or cultures of the Mediterranean, or more generally the relations between gender and the arts, will welcome this book. Contributors: Caroline Bithell, Joaquina Labajo, Jane C. Sugarman, Carol Silverman, Goffredo Plastino, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Edwin Seroussi, Marie Virolle, Terry Brint Joseph, Deborah Kapchan, Karin van Nieuwkerk, Svanibor Pettan, Martin Stokes, Philip V. Bohlman