estebanana -> RE: Forecast: Flamenco is dying out. Outlook and suggestion to recover! (May 10 2017 21:11:38)
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@estebanana what is the trend in Japan? I keep hearing that it has become a major hub for flamenco now. Do they tend to favor the traditional over more contemporary stuff? Both. Just lie everywhere else, there are moderns and ancients. I think Viejo Amargo's post hit it out of the park. Flamenco is more well known now than 20 years ago, and the depth to which to which the average person is going is not that deep, but there are more of them going farther than understanding the Gypsy Kings than ever before. For example Agujetas came to CA 2010 the venues he played in all sold out for shows of cante solo-without a dance show to go along with with the singing. Just Agujetas and Manuel Valencia, sold out venues. The audiences were mixed older folks and young folks men and women, dance students, guitar students and just general folks. It work so well he returned in 2012, granted he was Agujetas, but the people finding the promo material were no searching on 'Flamenco' they were learning about it via a private mailing list of the Bay Area Flamenco Festival, or some other way, from radio station promotions and the theaters calendars, etc. Agujetas had alsoo come to CA and the US in the 1980's and 70's- The premise of an internet search to determine flamenco popularity is absurd. People who advertise flamenco shows advertise in ways that expose the information to true music patrons to like special kinds of music, people who are not flamenco specialists, but folks who are music seekers that know which venues present unusual or specialty music. The flamenco people have a net work and mailing lists to get information, the music loving listener knows the Gypsy Kings play stadiums and big venues and smaller venues support various kinds of flamenco, The general public that goes to 'flamenco night' at a restaurant might not know too much, but those venues serve as gateways to deeper listening and exposure. Another reason that flamenco popularity is not represented on an English Google search is because in most area outside Spain flamenco is one of the art forms that people from Latin countries gravitate towards as a greater Spanish speaking community. There is inherent interest in flamenco in pan Hispanic-Latin world, and the way flamenco is known and understood is through popular performers, but also through deeper cultural connection that is linked to Spain and a love of arts that are particular to the Spanish speaking diaspora. So there's always that.
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