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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Part 1b: The gypsies and flamenco

By miguel | March 15th, 2008

The Gypsies first arrived in Spain during the XV century and were known by various names: Greeks, Egyptians, Zingaros and Hungaros. Their origin has been demonstrated by linguists to have been north east India.Their arrival in Spain provoked interest among the populace. The king Alfonso V in 1425 granted the gypsies “salvoconductos”, that is, safe [...]

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Part 1a: The social background to flamenco

By miguel | March 15th, 2008

For the cultured classes of Spain, until recently flamenco was nothing more than a “thing of the lower classes”; of taverns, violence, riotousness, drunkenness, and in the past, of beggars, thieves, bandits and gypsies. It was not until 1922 that a group of intellectuals (which included the composer Manuel de Falla and the young [...]

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