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What is Flamenco?
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Flamenco is a folk art and culture from Spain. It is particular to the province of Andalusia in Spain. Historically, it has always been the musical outlet of the poor and opperssed. It passed on by oral tradiction whivh the individual artist uses as the basis for his owen variations.
ORIGINS:
Is his though that was to evolve into flamenco origined back to the 16th century. The flamenco song (or "cante", as it is known) involves as synthesis of at least four cultures:
- the Wypsies
- the Moors, or Arabs
- the Jews
- the indigenous Andalusians
The first three were thrown together by the general persecution that followed the expulsion of the Moors in 1492. Flamenco was eventually created by the fusion of the "cante gitano" with Andalusians folk music. The accompaniament of the singing by the guitar is a later phenomenon altough it is recorded by travellers in Andalusia in the 18th century. Andalusian folk song had in the past been accompanied by differenti instruments including bandurria, violin and tambourina, but now the guitar predominated.
Flamenco first became a public, performing art in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the emergence of the "cafe cantante". The first "cafe cantante" opened in Seville in 1842, and attracted very little attention. But by the 1860s similar cafés were estabilished not only in the major cities of Andalusia but as far Madrid, and beyond. An audience of "aficionados" from all classes and occ`pations watched the performance. They could expect to be entertained by a group comprising perhaps one or two singers, three or four female and two male dancers, accompanied by two guitarists. The second half of the nineteenth century was one of the great ages of flamenco performance. The cafés brought together the Gypsy singers ("cante gitano") and the Andaluz singers ("cante andaluz") which became masters of many different forms of flamenco. The cafés also axpanded the role of the guitar, which became tremendously popular. They would employ a regular first and second guitarists, who had to know how to accompanny many different froms of songs and dance, and be able to follow the styles of differents singers. While the singers remained the leading figure, the guitarist came to take a less subservient part as time went on. Good guitarists weew in grat demad, the competition was fierce. In their efforts to outdo each other, the players introduced new techniques, and sometimes even resorted to tricks and outrafeous acts of showmanship such as playing with a gloves at one hand or with the guitar held above their head. But the "cafés" fostered aseries of fine guitarists culminating in Rámon Montoya (1880-1949), who was later to be the founder of the modern style of flamenco solo guitar.
ORIGINS:
Is his though that was to evolve into flamenco origined back to the 16th century. The flamenco song (or "cante", as it is known) involves as synthesis of at least four cultures:
- the Wypsies
- the Moors, or Arabs
- the Jews
- the indigenous Andalusians
The first three were thrown together by the general persecution that followed the expulsion of the Moors in 1492. Flamenco was eventually created by the fusion of the "cante gitano" with Andalusians folk music. The accompaniament of the singing by the guitar is a later phenomenon altough it is recorded by travellers in Andalusia in the 18th century. Andalusian folk song had in the past been accompanied by differenti instruments including bandurria, violin and tambourina, but now the guitar predominated.
Flamenco first became a public, performing art in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the emergence of the "cafe cantante". The first "cafe cantante" opened in Seville in 1842, and attracted very little attention. But by the 1860s similar cafés were estabilished not only in the major cities of Andalusia but as far Madrid, and beyond. An audience of "aficionados" from all classes and occ`pations watched the performance. They could expect to be entertained by a group comprising perhaps one or two singers, three or four female and two male dancers, accompanied by two guitarists. The second half of the nineteenth century was one of the great ages of flamenco performance. The cafés brought together the Gypsy singers ("cante gitano") and the Andaluz singers ("cante andaluz") which became masters of many different forms of flamenco. The cafés also axpanded the role of the guitar, which became tremendously popular. They would employ a regular first and second guitarists, who had to know how to accompanny many different froms of songs and dance, and be able to follow the styles of differents singers. While the singers remained the leading figure, the guitarist came to take a less subservient part as time went on. Good guitarists weew in grat demad, the competition was fierce. In their efforts to outdo each other, the players introduced new techniques, and sometimes even resorted to tricks and outrafeous acts of showmanship such as playing with a gloves at one hand or with the guitar held above their head. But the "cafés" fostered aseries of fine guitarists culminating in Rámon Montoya (1880-1949), who was later to be the founder of the modern style of flamenco solo guitar.
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