Jan Willem -> RE: Javier Conde (the bullfighter) and flamenco (Apr. 23 2008 10:42:11)
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think all the talking about "dimensions" and "deeper meaning" in flamenco and beeing able to feel it, are a bit exaggerated. Flamenco of today is not what it was a couple of years ago. And that what I saw on stage at the last festival was less flamenco and more contemporary dance. I think all the hype about the "real" flamenco maybe existed some decades ago. Today it became more an musicgenre like jazz and more a dancestyle like all the others, which are bloated with subsequently interpretated theory and declaration of some things they did in past as "traditional" and "pure". Its like the interpretation of poems of people who are already dead and who didnt wrote down the meaning for their poems. Now they constructed a whole science around some of them...all a bit far-fetched IMO and rightless. Its the same in the fashion buisness, it changes even faster than flamenco,..and the renewing in flamenco is already damn fast. Who has the right to tell, which fashion is "stylish, tastefull or bad"? IMO it depends on every unique person. I dont think that some "fashion-gurus" have the right to decide for me. Thanks for their ideas, but I choose by myself. I agree 100% quote:
Why should it be worse to just likeing the music in flamenco or just liking one part of the music? Why should it the requirement to like all facets of flamenco? It isn't worse or it isn't required, you go as far in it as you want to IMO, so again I agree with you. But I do think that Flamenco is (far!) more than the musical genre (FOR ME that is doitsujin). It's far more powerfull, it's a kind of awareness. For me personally Flamenco IS the tragical and mystical existence of men. And not only music expresses it, also the bullfighting... Just listen to an old seguiriya recording(for me that says it all), you can never call that just a musical genre (not saying you did). But you have a point when you say that it is a bit exaggerated to get all lyrical and poetic about it. So for some people the bullfighting represents something, so they don't see it merily as torture (altough there is no need to deny the suffering of the animal). But of course if you don't share that idea, I can perfectly understand why people detest it so much. JW
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