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gato -> RE: New Style v Old Style (Jun. 13 2007 8:31:53)
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I've read in an interview, that the flamenco faces a dillema, in that it's no longer considered a folk art, that there are fewer people getting together for private partys, it's less attainable without the aspect of professionalism, and that it's hurting the validity of the artform. And it's a wonder that it didn't happen sooner, though in my area, California, the local scene is flourishing. That great monolith, the record company, and it's way of doing business with the intensive marketing approaches, and the great enemy, stardom, are probably, and in my opinion, the cause.
Fewer and fewer people consider themselves worthy enough to perform, and just give up, and that beautiful and colorful past that the flamenco is notorious for, is fading, and yet something has got to save the purity of the artform without stifeling it's growth and moderisation. Quite a stagnant era we live in as for the validity and power of the flamenco as a living classic.
And I think that it has to start with the local moovement, and somehow if people can see the great power of expression that they posess as local performers on the small scale it can bring the equasion back in to balance, and then, we would have to see. But as I always say it (flamenco) can't be spoon fed to the masses by corperate exploitation, with out the smaller scale scenes and expect to survive, without loosing all to much of it's form and tradition that we love so much.
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