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Flamenco - Passion, Politics and Popular Culture (Paperback, New)
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Flamenco - Passion, Politics and Popular Culture (Paperback, New)
Series: Explorations in Anthropology
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Flamenco is renowned for its passion and flamboyance. Yet because
it generates such visceral responses, it is often overlooked as a
site for subtler discourses.
This absorbing book articulates powerful and convincing arguments
on such key subjects as ethnicity, irony, authenticity, the body
and resistance. Franco's 'politics of original sin' had left its
mark on every aspect of Spanish life between 1936 and 1975, and
flamenco music was no exception. Although widely portrayed as an
apolitical, even frivolous form of entertainment, flamenco is shown
here to have played a role in both the strategies of Franco's
supporters and of those who opposed him. The author explores how
the meaning of flamenco shifts according to the social, cultural
and historical contexts within which it appears. In so doing, he
demonstrates that flamenco is an ideal subject for analyzing the
construction and appropriation of popular culture, given the way in
which it was developed for middle-class audiences, converted into
grand spectacle, and conscripted to serve political ends.
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