Ricardo -> RE: Cante for Farruca (Aug. 5 2022 16:39:02)
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ORIGINAL: Mark2 I was watching a movie last night about the Cave of Altamira and was struck by the beauty of the area. Anyone ever spend time in the north? Is there any flamenco happening up there? Looks like an amazing place to visit. One of the things that most surprised me when I got into flamenco is to learn how Spaniards view gitanos and flamenco, especially people from the north area there. The integration of Gitanos and this flamenco culture seem to have a lot to do with the small geography down in Andalucia surrounding the Guadalquivir/Cadiz. That is the source, and it later spread to the Levante, most likely this working class of miners (mineros) carried flamenco traditions (fandango mainly) with them eastward. Of course major cities invited professional artists (Madrid Barcelona etc), but for the most part, the gitanos were marginalized elsewhere so if you find flamenco artists it is unusual. Sabicas for example learned flamenco guitar from vinyl records of Montoya, such that flamencos were shocked that a guy from Pamplona knew how to play so well, not being from “the cradle”. It was still the case into the 1970s, even though flamenco had already become global. I met a family from Aragon and the young daughter loved to dance, not just Jotas and stuff but flamenco as well. Mama could not comprehend why her daughter wanted to do the dance of “those gypsies”, as she remembered how they had to gather them ALL up in her town and “get rid” of them. That would not have been too long ago. [:o][:'(]
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