Author: Claus Schreiner
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781574670134
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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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.
Author: Cherry Radford
Publisher: Author Essentials (Indepenpress)
ISBN: 9781780035260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Musician and dance enthusiast Yolande has just finished with yet another faithless boyfriend, even though her body clock is ticking wildly and she longs for a child. However much gay best friend and ideal man Jeremy adores her, he refuses to be the father. Should she relent and take back her repentant ex? Conceive with a sperm donor? She has become entranced by flamenco, music of the outcasts - could seeds secretly planted at a London flamenco evening with enigmatic dancer Fernando Morales begin to flower into a 'flamenco baby'? Then, while Yolande starts a cosy relationship with a teacher on her flamenco course in Granada, Jeremy becomes drawn to Fernando - and so begins a whirl of secrecy, love and jealousy that has them all wondering if, in the spirit of flamenco, they dare to give the truth.
Author: George Ancona
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781600603617
Category : Belpré Honor book
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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FLAMENCO-it's dancing, it's singing, it's guitar playing! It's a way of expressing oneself that has evolved from many influences over hundreds of years. Today flamenco is practiced throughout the world and all across the United States. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, we meet Janira Cordova, the youngest member of a company studying to perform flamenco. Here the students learn the tools of their art-how to move their hands, arms, bodies, and feet to the traditional rhythms of the music and songs. Each aspect of flamenco is explored in detail. The origins of the art form are also explained, which draw upon the musical traditions of Indian, Arab, and North African cultures, among others. Janira's flamenco has progressed well, and at Santa Fe's annual Spanish Market in July, she finally has a chance to join the older dancers and perform in the town plaza. With colorful, action-packed photographs and accessible text, readers are sure to feel Janira's excitement and catch flamenco fever. �Ol�!
Author: Sandie Holguín
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299321800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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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.
Author: Adair Landborn
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786496169
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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Flamenco dance and bullfighting are parallel arts with shared traditions, performance conventions and vocabularies of movement. This volume introduces readers to an ongoing discussion in Spanish scholarship about the links between these two quintessentially Spanish arts. The author--a dancer and a student of bullfighting--describes the informal practice of both arts in private settings and their emergence as formal public rituals in the bullfighting arena and on the flamenco stage. Key bullfighting techniques and their influence on flamenco dance style are discussed in the context of understanding the worldview and kinesthetic culture of Spain.
Author: Michelle Heffner Hayes
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476613125
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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This analytical history traces representations of flamenco dance in Spain and abroad from the twentieth century to the present, using histories, film, accounts of live performances, and practitioner interviews. Beginning with an analysis of flamenco historiography, the text examines images of the female dancer in films by Luis Bunuel, Carlos Saura, and Antonio Gades; stereotypes of flamenco bodies and Andalusian culture in Prosper Merimee's Carmen; and the ways in which contemporary flamenco dancers like Belen Maya and Rocio Molina negotiate the stereotype of Carmen and an idealized Spanish feminine that pervades "traditional" flamenco. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Jason Webster
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407094610
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some years dumped him unceremoniously, he found himself at a crossroads. Abandoning the world of libraries and the future he had always imagined for himself, he headed off instead for Spain in search of duende, the intense emotional state - part ecstasy, part desperation - so intrinsic to flamenco. Duende is an account of his years spent in Spain feeding his obsessive interest in flamenco: he subjects himself to the tyranny of his guitar teacher, practising for hours on end until his fingers bleed; he becomes involved in a passionate affair with Lola, a flamenco dancer (and older woman) married to the gun-toting Vicente, only to flee Alicante in fear of his life; in Madrid, he falls in with Gypsies and meets the imperious Jesús. Joining their dislocated, cocaine-fuelled world, stealing cars by night and sleeping away the days in tawdry rooms, he finds himself spiralling self-destructively downwards. It is only when he arrives in Granada bruised and battered, after two years total immersion in the flamenco lifestyle that he is able to put his obsession into context. In the tradition of Laurie Lee's classic As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Duende charts a young man's emotional coming of age and offers real insight into the passionate essence of flamenco.
Author: Barbara Thiel-Cramér
Publisher: Remark AB
ISBN: 9789197125925
Category : Flamenco
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Provides a history of flamenco by examining its myths, vocabulary, and traditions, and introduces dancers, guitarists, and singers association with this dance
Author: Sandra Lowery
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 149905095X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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A Struggle for Independence is a true story based on my personal life as someone who has lived with mild Cerebral palsy and the many goals I have accomplished such as walking at twenty months old and speaking, driving a car at age seventeen, another was motherhood at age thirty-five which was a huge victory for me. I gave birth to a healthy normal baby girl, who is the joy of my life. I have overcome many obstacles in spite of the prejudice and ignorance that I have faced with society. I was raised in a military family that moved around from state to state and lived in Europe as well. I'm the oldest of four siblings. As the oldest I was responsible for my younger siblings, one of them, a precocious younger sister who forced me to excel in ways that weren't expected. In addition, my mother had the insight to allow me to do things on my own without any interference. This story leads you from tears to laughter. You might ask yourself does her struggle with independence have to do with her physical disability or society itself? I hope my story inspires others like myself to write their story.
Author: D. E. Pohren
Publisher: Morón de la Frontera, Spain : Society of Spanish Studies
ISBN:
Category : Flamenco
Languages : es
Pages : 308
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