apak -> RE: How much do you really enjoy cante flamenco? (Oct. 29 2010 0:12:28)
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ORIGINAL: JasonMcGuire quote:
As an unseasoned student, I have been too timid to express this opinion, but might as well: I really can't stand most of the traditional cantes in flamencos. Then move onto another form of music. Flamenco is all about the cante. You are insulting the very reason why guitars ever played in the flamenco style. You can't love flamenco and hate Cante. You wouldn't be the first to ask this ridiculous question and certainly won't be the last, but the answer is the same. Eventually you will realize that Cante and Guitar are things that can't be separated and that you can't really understand an art form as tied to its singing as flamenco without intense study of cante. Of course if you just want to dabble in making Spanishy type sounds on your guitar in your spare time thats one thing.... but if you are serious about flamenco guitar, then you must also be serious about cante flamenco. Your credible opinion noted. But since I have offended, I might as well run the risk again: I still have the audacity to say that I have had more intrinsic exposure to the root of the flamenco cante than perhaps even you, and I just dislike most of it. But there is still so much music in my own national tradition that I love, and I would be surprised if someone came along and told me "hey buddy, that ain't gonna work! You either love it all, or move along!" So I do not agree with the package deal way of thinking about this. I adore the flamenco toque, and see no reason why I can appreciate it without the cante. Unless you are thinking one must be in all respects and forms embrace the lifestyle of Andalusian gypsies to appreciate flamenco at all. But I'm curious, if one day you are in Morocco and the the Azaan starts blaring, do you start thinking "wow, this is beautiful music to my ears." ? Please do not take this is a ridiculing question... I am simply curious. And again, please read my opinions as just that, perhaps educated or not. I have no intention to cause offence to anyone's respectable values and ideals.
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