Song of the outcasts : an introduction to flamenco / by Robin Totton.

Author/creator Totton, Robin
Format Book
Publication InfoPortland, OR : Amadeus Press, 2003.
Description224 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.)
Subjects
Flamenco music--History and criticism.
Flamenco--History and criticism.

Contents Why? What? Where? Who? -- The song -- The dance -- The guitar and its music -- The song forms -- Where is flamenco heading? -- Who are the gypsies of Andalusia?
Contents Accompanying CD contents: Toná (Dolores Agujeta) (2:37) -- Siguiriya 1 (Chocolate and Diego Amaya) (2:11) -- Siguiriya 2 (Antonio El Monea) (1:49) -- Soleá 1 (José Menese and Melchor de Marchena) (7:32) -- Soleá 2 (David Lagos and Alfredo Lagos) (5:22) -- Bulería (Melchora Ortega and Pascual de Lorca) (5:47) -- Tiento-tango (María del M. Fernández) (4:21) -- Alegrías (Chano Lobato and Luis Moneo) (3:22) -- Peteneras (Juan Zarzuela and Pedro Pimentel) (3:05) -- Fandango local (Elisa La del Horno and Rafael Hoces) (4:13) -- Fandango grande (Antonio El Monea) (:50) -- Malagueña (Dolores Agujeta and Agujetas Chico) (3:05) -- Rondeña (Juan Zarzuela and Pedro Pimentel) (2:03) -- Media granaína (Mercedes Hidalgo and Miguel Ochando) (4:37) -- Granaína (El Colorao and El Coquillo) (3:19) -- Taranta (Juan Cortés Coquillo) (4:11) -- Taranto (2:27) ; Farruca (3:21) (Juan Pinilla and Carlos Zárate) -- Garrotín (Lola La Cartujana and Carlos Zárate) (3:00) -- Guajira (Sensi and Carlos Zárate) (4:39) -- Saeta (unknown singer) (3:46).
Abstract Flamenco has taken the world by storm in recent years. From London to New York and Los Angeles to Tokyo, not to mention lively festivals in Spain, huge crowds come to experience the power of flamenco. Ironically, though, if the performance is authentic--and much in the tourist trade is not--the uninitiated may find it utterly baffling. The music itself, and the use of the voice to sing it, are entirely unfamiliar. The rhythms are exotic and strange, the intensity of feeling startling. Yet for the Andalusians flamenco has been familiar for a thousand years: it is the song of the outcasts, the poorest of the poor. Though it is not exclusively the music of the Gypsies, they are its catalysts and spiritual torchbearers, and so their story helps us to understand the music. The author writes--and offers the music on the accompanying compact disc sampler--from his life among them, for he has come as close to flamenco as any outsider can hope to do. Clearly he has fallen under its spell, and readers will gladly follow as he walks us through the poetic song forms, the rhythmic guitar, and the flamboyant dance, as well as the vocabulary, names, and places, of the simmering emotion and living art of flamenco.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index.
LCCN 2002029919
ISBN1574670794
ISBN1574670808 (pbk.)

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Music Music Stacks ML3712 .T67 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold