qzack -> RE: future of flamenco (Oct. 2 2022 2:32:06)
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We need new flamenco, urban flamenco, fusion flamenco, indie flamenco, dance flamenco, avant garde flamenco, experimental flamenco or whatever other labels they come up with. do "we"? sounds like a lot of marketing gimmicks to me. When a new form of music emerges it usually gets a name, but often it seems like what is happening is new "labels" are being invented before the music they are supposed to describe has barely emerged let alone developed sufficient to warrant a name... As someone came from a place where we they can’t distinguish between a Mariachi Band, Arab Oud and Flamenco, sadly at least we need the label somehow. In my place, the growth of puro is little to no existence and if not, it’s just painstakingly slow as I tend to find myself become lonely at times and some aficionados tend to stuck to earlier days of Paco de Lucia and Sabicas without knowing there are others that developed the genre like Vicente, Gerado Núñez and Antonio Rey for example. At least to draw in an initial attention, we need anything that classified in the quoted labels mentioned there just keeping everyone in track but then SOMEBODY has to go hand-in-hand with that and offers something else with almost similar audience coverage (although it hasn’t happened yet in my local case) At least, from where I come, more and more aficionados are found due to this although (surely) not as many as I would expect. The very slow growth, I argue, because by having too much EDM Flamenco (let’s say) without someone else offering the other “proper form” hinder the idea of introducing Flamenco in the first place. Hence, we’re just getting stuck and people keep thinking that Flamenco, in essence, is just a guitar passage in minor modes and someone who sings like Arab [:D] and then then moved on to whatever offered in the recurring top 40 list The niche community however, could get stuck as well if nobody tries hand-in-hand with the trend to play and inspire the newly found aficionados. Else, like us, they will keep getting stuck with Rumba and something came from old Sabicas/Paco Peña videos. quote:
Bill, I don’t know how one could listen to her latest album and call it fraudulent. It’s got nothing to do with flamenco (except for one piece). That journalist who called it neo-flamenco is an idiot. She doesn’t call it flamenco or she’d be an idiot, too. But she’s not. No way. She also has no obligation to walk around in sack-cloth apologizing to the world for every nitwit that mislabels her arte. It’s not her problem, she has nothing to apologize for, she has a right to create and the rest of the world can do what they want with it. Apparently, in my case locally, Rosalía was regarded as “brave” enough to detach from her Flamenco “roots” by traversing much within EDM instead focusing on the strangest track to their ears and explore [:D][:D] as some online amateur critics says. It indicates that these critics doesn’t have any open gesture for appreciating any move from Rosalía to develop more “Bulerias tracks” in the future as they tend to focus more on her EDM iterations to freshen the overly generic latin-pop scene. I rarely find someone who highlighted her “flamenco” pieces more than her other album tracks
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