Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Comprehensive, rigorous, and accessible--qualities that don’t always coincide. This book tackles flamenco history, structure, and culture in a way that is professional and compassionate. Literature on flamenco often undiscerningly presents a jumble of facts, hypothesis, suppositions, stories, and legends; this work masterfully untangles these and even-handedly dissects several polemics. One of the most important contributions to the field.”--John Moore, flamenco guitarist
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Part I. History
1 Pre-Flamenco Music
2 The Café Cantante Period, 1860-1920s
3 From Stagnation to Revival
Part II. Structure and Forms in Flamenco
4 Structure
5 The Flamenco Repertoire: Description and Analysis
6 Flamenco Lyrics
Part III. Flamenco Culture
7 The Contemporary Scene
8 Perspectives on Flamenco Culture
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
