Cantaoras: Music, Gender and Identity in Flamenco Song

ISBN-13: 9780415943284 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 330 str.

Loren Chuse;Chuse Loren

Opis

This work provides an in-depth ethnographic investigation of the greatly underestimated and under appreciated dynamic contributions of women singers, the cantaoras, to the creation, transmission and innovation of flamenco song. Situating the study of flamenco in the context of social and political currents that have shaped 20th-century Spain and drawing on interview material with the cantaoras themselves, the author shows how flamenco is a complex of cultural practices at once musical, physical, verbal and social, and that the performance of flamenco involves the expression and negotiation of complex multi-layered identities which include notions of Andalusian, regional, gypsy and gender identity.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter One: An Andalusian Journey Chapter Two: Traditional and Innovative Musical Practice in Flamenco Chapter Three: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Singers Chapter Four: Social and Political Conditions for Women and Their Impact on Cantaoras in Twentieth-Century Spain Chapter Five: The Cantaora Today Chapter Six: La Herencia: Traditions of Flamenco in Lebrija and Granada Chapter Seven: Women and the Guitarra Flamenca Chapter Eight: The Flamenco Copla: Themes, Archetypes, Stereotypes Chapter Nine: The Social Construction of Flamenco Identity Chapter Ten: Identity, Aesthetics, and Emotion Glossary References Index

O autorze

Loren Chuse