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Flamenco - Passion, Politics and Popular Culture (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Flamenco - Passion, Politics and Popular Culture (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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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