sorin popovici -> RE: what for a importance has flamecno today in spain (Dec. 6 2005 3:15:11)
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Hmm ....well,I dont know what you mean,your english is not very good. I guess you mean "How important is flamenco in Spain now ? ". I'm asking myself the same question ...if it is a mass phenomenon or not. I know a guy who met a classical guitarist from Spain while the guitarist was paying a visit to a music school in Romania.And he (the guitarist from Spain) was asked to play a little flamenco .He responded : "I am not a gypsy.I dont play gypsy music". Now ,when I heared this story ...I understood that Spain is not all about flamenco as I thought(though in my mind it was ) ...and probably a spaniard when he is talking about the traditional music of Spain ,he doesnt mean flamenco.So flamenco is not synonimous with traditional music of Spain.From what I know, I tend to believe that flamenco though probably it is more and more popular, flamenco is still the music of some comunities but not the music that entire Spain embrace and call it their own. I'm really curious if I'm right ,never asked someone from Spain (though through this forum I have this posibilty) how things really are. Ok,if you still dont get any response .Go to www.wikipedia.com and type in the search "flamenco" and happy copy-paste [:D] One day ,I hope to get there ...and I will put this question then, but now it's not the moment . <just had to get thist out > I sadly hear that romanians are not very welcomed there(it is true that Spain doesnt get the most representative romanians, and from this point of view I understand their adverse reaction(they are good people and low quality people in any country)....but still that incident with that melody composed by some DJ about romanian workers, it's too much ..... ). </end> VLPS(very long post scriptum): If u read this and dont understand what melody I'm talking about ,skip this post...it's really not that important,I just had to say it. If u really want to know what is all about ,read it here http://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2005/495/1113084008.html I couldnt find a newspaper that still has the news as I've heared it in 2004, ,but some of the story is here.I also listened to the mp3, and I'm to say the least upset.I dont know if this was a big story in Spain ,but in Romania it was ...and now imagine me explaining to some romanian rednecks that not all spaniards are bad.This should have been stopped at that time,we are not living in the fifties, racism and xenophobia is not some "new" phenomenon that they just cant control. I know I wont be shoping for a Conde in the next six or seven years ,cause they are damn expensive but I wouldnt want to have to buy it from internet cause Madrid is dangerous. quote: "Y, más grave aún, hasta hace unos días sonaban a todo volumen en algunas discotecas de Levante y Madrid. Imagínense cientos de chavales dando saltos en el centro de una pista de baile, con el cubata en una mano coreando los estribillos de esas canciones: ..........." /quote (the lyrics are all over the web,the link from above is in spanish and has some of the lyrics.) Anyway...what was this thread about ? I promise I'll try to think happy thoughts more often...people tend to say that I exagerate(and I tend to disagree [:@] ).
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