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presented in New Orleans to a receptive audience of anthropologists and students of Hispanic culture attending the AAA's 1973 symposium on Spain. While I regret that they were not included in iQud Gitano!, I cannot agree that the deep song chapter should have been expunged because of its content. Deep song involves a temperamental element organic to Andalusian Gypsy culture. This element is intensely romantic and the writers attempted to present it with understanding. To deal with a subject which is itself romantic is quite different from failing in accuracy because of an author's or subjective point of view. To ignore the temperamental characteristics on which deep song focuses, as Dunn suggests, would constitute less than an objective approach. In summary, ;Que Gitano! was meant to describe some cultural elements transmitted, shared, and perpetuated by Andalusian Gypsies in general, and Granada's sedentary Gypsies in particular. It has been well received by colleagues whose primary professional interests have involved extensive fieldwork in southern Spain. Fortunately, they know that dancing bears are not indigenous to the area

Art · Diversity and Impact of Dance · History · Romani and Gypsy Studies

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