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bailoro2000 -> RE: Flamenco meets rap - a fusion too far? (Apr. 14 2004 22:46:38)
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Hi Jon.
We've thrashed the fusion thing to death on flamencodancer forum and it's frightening but people, particularly the young, are seeing Euro-pop as flamenco because of groups like El Bicho and Ojos de Brujo etc. Have to be honest and say I hate the mortal sound of rap and think it an insult to music. To mix it with flamenco just shows how the young are controlling everything. There is only one real guide to good flamenco; If you can play it at a home party without complaint, it ain't flamenco ((-;
Estela would tell you that a lot of the local authorities pounding the flamenco drum for tourism wouldn't know flamenco if it hit them on the head. 'Away with polka-dots and
old performers and bring on Armani gear and "modern flamenco" is the war cry of the marketeers and agents. Sad, but unfortunately very true.
Jim.
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