Flamenco and Spanish Dance

There is so much information available on flamenco in music books and magazines, on video and DVD inserts and film covers, compact disc jackets, and especially the Internet that it is difficult to determine what materials are worthwhile and reliable. In the world of flamenco, artists' and aficionados' opinions are inclined to be subjective. Given flamenco's exoticized nature juxtaposed with its current drive toward modernity, one wonders where the truth lies. The biggest problem has been that Spanish and flamenco dance scholarship often contains questionable opinions and observations, as is the case in the book Flamenco , edited by Claus Schreiner, with contributions on Baile Flamenco by Schreiner and Marion Papenbrok (Schreiner 1990). There is some good material here on flamenco dancing, but it is tainted by a lack of understanding of flamenco dance history, for example, when Schreiner ponders “what is to be made of Carlos Saura's [films] Carmen [Piedra 1984/1986] or Blood Wedding ? No matter how well Antonio Gades and his troupe dance in these films...they have little to do with true flamenco” (Schreiner 1990, 31)

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• Flamenco dance. Characteristics, resources and reflections on its evolution

  Open Access•María Jesús Cuéllar Moreno, Lincoln Geraghty•Cogent Arts and Humanities•2016

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• Flamenco

  Peter Manuel, Claus Schreiner et al.•Ethnomusicology•1992

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