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By K. Meira Goldberg,Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum,Michelle Heffner Hayes,K. Meira, Goldberg

The language of the physique is crucial to the learn of flamenco. From the documents of the Inquisition, to sixteenth century literature, to ecu trip diaries, the Spanish dancer beguiles and fascinates. The observe flamenco inspires a dead ringer for a sensuous and rebellious woman—the bailaora —whose events seduce the viewers, in basic terms to reject their recognition with a stomp of defiance. The dancer’s physique is an agent of ideological resistance, conveying a conflicting wish for subjectivity and autonomy and implying deeply held principles approximately background, nationwide id, femininity and masculinity.
This selection of new essays offers an outline of flamenco scholarship, illuminating flamenco’s narrative and chronology and addressing a few universal misconceptions. The members provide clean views on age-old subject matters and recommend new paradigms for flamenco as a cultural practice.
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