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Palo names - meaning?
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Piwin
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 RE: Palo names - meaning? (in reply to Deniz)
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Martinetes: Ildefonso Maria Rodriguez was working in the forge one day when his hand slipped and he crushed his fingers under a mallet (martinete). This prompted him to sing the most jondo song ever heard. The name martinete stuck.
Saeta: in 1873 in a village near Alicante, Maria Martha Maria de Martha took some shrooms and saw Jesus. The name stuck.
Polos: comes from the tragic story of two young boys, Jorge and Luis, who were playing Marco Polo in the Mediterranean. Jorge was swept off by the current. Luis kept on yelling Marco, with no reply. In the months that followed, grief drove him mad and he started singing Polo, the imaginary response of his now dead friend.
Granainas: actually come from Barcelona. But Barcelonaninas is a crappy name, so the inventor, Isabel Puigxet, put her finger on a map at random, landed on Granada, and called it Granainas.
Chuflas: called that because it's fun to say. Chuflas. Chuflas.
Caña: named after a beer-worshipping cult that had mild success in 17th-century Cadiz.
Tarantas: a song sung exclusively by women during the 1632 sex strike of Valencia. Now merged with Tarantos and called Tarantxs. Pronounced as written.
Cartageneras: a song about obsession. Delenda est.
Zapateado: in the early days of capitalism, a song of rich shoe-owners who use to gloat and fret in front of their shoeless counterparts.
Solea: actually not about soledad, but songs about Marisol, the most famous Madam of 1870s Sevilla. Used to be called Marisolea, but has been shortened to solea.
Romeras: songs about Rome, preferably sung in the original Latin.
Caracoles: war songs to make fun of the French after Napoleon came to Madrid. It was either snails or frogs. They made a call.
Jaberas: songs from soap operas.
Zarzuela: songs about bad seafood made by neophytes. Zarzuela is what California rolls are to sushi, or what ham-pineapple toppings are to pizza. The song bemoans the unnatural violation of basic aesthetics.
Colombianas: songs about Christopher Columbus. Basically variations on that Vangelis song from the 1992 movie. You know... in noripe peripeeeeeeee, in noripe bla bla blaaaaa
Verdiales: songs about green vegetables. Mostly green beans.
Bambera: cheap knock-offs of the Gipsy King hit song Bamboleo.
(sorry, I had nothing useful to say  )
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