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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 13 2003 21:29:57

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RE: cante for dance classe performances (in reply to Guest)

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.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 13 2003 22:03:35

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RE: cante for dance classe performances (in reply to Guest)

Yo no tengo más remedio
que agachar la cabecita
decir que lo blanco is negro

I can do no more
than bow my head
and say that black is white.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 13 2003 23:17:26

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RE: cante for dance classe performances (in reply to Guest)

Andy,

Yeah, as much of a headache as it is, the cantaor will have to memorize the sections because it is a 'choreography'. You might help him out with some special chording compases that cover the varying compas lengths, as a way to help cue him in to start singing. As long as the dancers don't change or forget anything, this usually works.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 14 2003 3:00:31

Miguel de Maria

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RE: cante for dance classe performances (in reply to Guest)

Andy, why do you have a kachina on your icon? Are you from Arizona like me?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 15 2003 13:21:04

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 15 2003 14:14:45

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RE: cante for dance classe performances (in reply to Guest)

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. "

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 15 2003 16:57:22

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 15 2003 18:45:41