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Rosalía And Flamenco: A Musicological Perspective, Peter L. Manuel
Rosalía And Flamenco: A Musicological Perspective, Peter L. Manuel
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While the styles and sources of Rosalía’s music are diverse and eclectic, flamenco is certainly the genre of which she has made most consistent and extensive use, with her idiosyncratic and original interpretations provoking much controversy in flamenco circles. Without discussing such polemics, this article explores in some specificity the particular flamenco forms she has used, from her first album Los Ángeles through her 2022 Motomami. It further makes some general observations about her flamenco interpretations, though these resist facile categorization. Some of the specific flamenco forms (cantes and estilos) that she performs are familiar and iconic, …
The Rosalía Polemic: Defining Genre Boundaries And Legitimacy In Flamenco, Peter L. Manuel
The Rosalía Polemic: Defining Genre Boundaries And Legitimacy In Flamenco, Peter L. Manuel
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In 2018, Spanish singer Rosalía attained international popularity with her innovative flamenco-fusion album El mal querer. Within the flamenco world, the Rosalía vogue provoked vehement and ongoing polemics, involving whether or not her music should be regarded as “flamenco,” whether she had the social credentials to be accepted as an innovator, and whether it was proper for her to adopt the persona of a ghetto-girl Gypsy in her hit music video, “Malamente.” These controversies reveal much about flamenco culture, and especially about the tensions inhering to its status as both a concert art form and a traditional idiom embedded …
Flamenco Jazz: An Analytical Study, Peter L. Manuel
Flamenco Jazz: An Analytical Study, Peter L. Manuel
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The Fandango Complex In The Spanish Atlantic: A Panoramic View, Peter L. Manuel
The Fandango Complex In The Spanish Atlantic: A Panoramic View, Peter L. Manuel
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While the Andalusian and best-known forms of fandango share certain distinctive musical features, these same features can be seen to link these subgenres, historically and structurally, to much broader sets of transatlantic musical families, older genres like the zarabanda and chacona, a wide family of Caribbean-Basin ternary forms, as well as Andean and South American relatives. At the same time, clear distinctions can be made between genres related to this fandango complex and other major musical families in the Spanish Atlantic.
Composition, Authorship, And Ownership In Flamenco, Past And Present, Peter L. Manuel
Composition, Authorship, And Ownership In Flamenco, Past And Present, Peter L. Manuel
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Flamenco In Focus: An Analysis Of A Performance Of Soleares, Peter L. Manuel
Flamenco In Focus: An Analysis Of A Performance Of Soleares, Peter L. Manuel
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The Guajira Between Cuba And Spain: A Study In Continuity And Change, Peter L. Manuel
The Guajira Between Cuba And Spain: A Study In Continuity And Change, Peter L. Manuel
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Flamenco Guitar: History, Style, And Context, Peter L. Manuel
Flamenco Guitar: History, Style, And Context, Peter L. Manuel
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Andalusian, Gypsy, And Class Identity In The Contemporary Flamenco Complex, Peter L. Manuel
Andalusian, Gypsy, And Class Identity In The Contemporary Flamenco Complex, Peter L. Manuel
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This article endeavors to illustrate the important role played by flamenco and related subgenres in expressing and, to a considerable extent, helping to shape modern Andalusian identity. In this way we will attempt to demonstrate how musical style as well as text content can function not merely as passive reflections of broader sociocultural phenomena that shape them, but also as active contributors to the processes of cultural change.