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RE: cante for dance classe performances (in reply to Guest)
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Andy In Andalucia, cante is flamenco. However, in the big wide world, the only thing the general public can relate to is dance. Therefore, dancers run the touring companies, dancers pay their minions (singers, guitarists), dancers call the shots. So your friend will just have to learn what the dancers want. The great Chano Lobato spent his whole artistic life singing for dancers and only got to sing p'alante when he retired. This is sad but true: your friend will have to knuckle down and hope that the dance teacher knows what she is doing. I have abandoned completely the accompaniment of dance classes: it was driving me nuts. Now I only play for singers. Suerte Sean
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Date Jul. 13 2003 22:03:35
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Ron.M
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RE: cante for dance classe performances (in reply to Guest)
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That's interesting Andy. I know you are interested in family history etc and you have traced your surname to "Black Heart", however have you ever thought it could be a corruption of "Blaggard"? Blackard is a common name in the UK also. Here's something I found for your info:- "The spelling reproduces the pronunciation of black guard or blackguard, and the latter is the way in which it should normally be spelt. Modern dictionaries define it as "scoundrel" or something similar. This is the first definition too of Eric Partridge in A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (I have the third edition, 1949, in front of me). He continues: "At first this was a collective noun: in the 16th and 17th centuries, the scullions of a great house; from the later 16th century, the Devil's body-guard; in the 17th century, the camp-followers; in the 18th century, a body of attendants of black dress, race or character, or the underworld, esp the shoe-blacking portion thereof." Partridge points for further discussion of "this interesting word" to the SOD (his abbreviation for the Shorter Oxford Dictionary) and the OED itself. Blaggard, so far as I can see, nowhere appears. " Ron
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Date Jul. 15 2003 16:57:22
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