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Flamenco
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre
Flamenco grew up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Andalusia, above all among the gitanos, the Spanish Roma, in and around Seville, Jerez and Cádiz. In the cafés cantantes, which emerged from the middle of the nineteenth century, singing, guitar playing and dance became a stage art. The singing is raw and richly ornamented, with hand clapping and shouts as rhythmic accompaniment. Paco de Lucía and Camarón de la Isla renewed the genre from the 1970s onwards.
Listening
Listening tip. Here La Niña de los Peines sings a soleá around 1910, one of the core forms of flamenco. Listen to how she stretches a single syllable over a whole series of notes, and how the guitar answers between her lines.
De dos vereas inguales (soleares) · La Niña de los Peines, 1910
Entre dos aguas · Paco de Lucía, 1973
La leyenda del tiempo · Camarón de la Isla, 1979
See also
Categories: Genres