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Las Alegrías/Cantiñas

By miguel | February 1st, 2011

Originally, the word cantiña referred to any popular song: Cantinear, or canturrear, means to hum along to. It was originally a word used to denominate medieval songs from Galicia in northern Spain. The word is though to have arrived at Cádiz shipboard, where it was adopted by the local gaditanos (natives of Cádiz). Whether the [...]

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Flamencology

By miguel | May 12th, 2010

In 1955 Flamencologia was published by the Argentine Anselmo Gonzalez Climent. Before this there is hardly any book on the subject in existence. With the exception of XIX century travellers such as Richard Ford and George Borrows, the only books published before 1955 were: Colección de cantes flamencos by Demofilo (1881) and Arte y artistas [...]

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