Miguel de Maria -> RE: flamencology (Oct. 7 2004 20:55:32)
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I was in Sevilla for a month and took a tiny course called introduction to flamenco. They are concerned with documentation, not execution... You will not learn how to sing or play from listening to them. To my mind it is, what are you interested in? Are you interested in getting it into your bones, to really experience a vibrant living thing? Then talk to Sean. Are you interested in knowing, in a book sense, how these things work together, when they started, where they started, how certain personages interacted with things? Then go to one of these flamencologists. If you ask five different flamencos what is Solea por Bulerias, you will get five different answers, and they will each contradict each other, and often themselves, many times. Some people will tell you that flamenco is of, by, and for gypsies, others will contradict that notion. You are dealing with very proud, sometimes vain, and very passionate people who take their art very seriously. This goes for flamencos and flamencologists... :) But this is just my experience, you'l have to find out for yourself.
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