Richard Jernigan -> RE: A Thousand and One Stories of Pericon de Cadiz (Feb. 15 2023 18:26:53)
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Yes, I have listened to her version of Chacon. It is clearly flamenco, though hardly traditional. However, in the interview Ortiz Nuevo says: " Hasta el momento, todo lo que hace Rosalía es flamenco, que es una música de encuentro y de pasión natural, en la que confluían Cuba con lo gitano y otras muchas cosas. Lo que ella hace, aunque sea en un escenario con miles de luces, es flamenco auténtico. Todo en ella tiene claves flamencas, y que logre poner a diez mil personas a tocar palmas por tangos es maravilloso. Contiene en sí misma todo lo que el maestro Morente exigía: conocimiento, afición, hacerlo desde lo antiguo. En cada una de sus canciones hay 14 o 20 indicios flamencos." ...implying that everything Rosalia published up to the time of the interview (September, 2019) was either traditional flamenco, or flamenco with a modernized sensibility perhaps, or was at least significantly influenced by traditional flamenco. My take is that much of the material here, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rosalia published after Ortiz Nuevo wrote the above, is not noticeably flamenco influenced, proceeding from distinctly separate genres. I don't object to Rosalia's career path. Spanish society in her generation is radically different from the time when traditional flamenco arose and flourished. When I was her age the old regime was on its last legs, but it still existed, impoverished, outdated and authoritarian. Now Spain is largely a modern European country, despite the small recalcitrant gypsy minority, and the discrimination practiced against them and North African immigrants. So is Rosalia, in Chicken Teriyaki mode, still flamenco? RNJ
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