Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain : Music and Memory, Hardcover b...

Description: Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain : Music and Memory, Hardcover by Washabaugh, William, ISBN 1409434842, ISBN-13 9781409434849, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In this detailed study, Washabaugh (anthropology, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) examines the cultural and political effects of flamenco performances (rather than the music and dance itself) as he details its development as a Spanish national musical style. He examines how it is being cultivated as a marker of Andalusian identity and a patrimonial symbol of Andalusian autonomy, how Andalusians have avoided transforming it into a fixed and well-defined patrimonial object, and the government's reluctance to define flamenco. He contends that institutional forces influenced performances, generated self-understandings, and defined the style in the past, and summarizes and evaluates past-oriented definitions of heritage-flamenco, outlines an alternative definition of the style, and reviews the musical characteristics that should be included. He addresses proposals by other scholars about its style-definition and how they can influence a new way of characterizing the idea of musical style, then shows how the style was molded from 1880 to 1980 by various institutional forces during three periods, including the effects of krausism and its impact on educational practice, modernist art, and media journalism. He discusses the reliance of the current government on the past, institutional concept of flamenco, and how new forces (cinema and studio-recording) are changing it. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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