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Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music

Sonidos Negros

On the Blackness of Flamenco

K. Meira (Visiting Research Scholar, Visiting Research Scholar, CUNY Graduate Center) Goldberg

Sonidos Negros

Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music

Sonidos Negros

On the Blackness of Flamenco

Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music: Sonidos Negros

 

In Sonidos Negros, readers learn how Flamenco's sensuality, quixotic idealism, and fierce soulfulness echo with contests that trace the rise and fall of the Spanish empire. From Inquisitional certifications of blood purity to Christmas pageants staged throughout the Americas, flamenco's Janus-faced stage Gypsy walks a knife's edge between Blackness and Whiteness.


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Beschrijving Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music: Sonidos Negros

How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor became Black, and how this figure, enacted in terms of a minstrelized Gitano, paradoxically came to represent Spain itself.

The imagined Gypsy about which flamenco imagery turns dances on a knife's edge delineating Christian and non-Christian, White and Black worlds. This figure's subversive teetering undermines Spain's symbolic linkage of religion with race, a prime weapon of conquest. Flamenco's Sonidos Negros live in this precarious balance, amid the purposeful confusion and ruckus cloaking embodied resistance, the lament for what has been lost, and the values and aspirations of those rendered imperceptible by enslavement and colonization.


ISBN
9780190466923
Pagina's
352
Verschenen
Serie
Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
NUR
670
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

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