Chuse Cantaoras

Music, Gender and Identity in Flamenco Song
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-38204-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 330 Seiten

Reihe: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

This book provides an in-depth ethnographic investigation of the greatly underestimated and underappreciated contributions of women singers, the cantaoras, to the creation, transmission and innovation in flamenco song. Situating the study of flamenco in the context of social and political currents that have shaped twentieth-century Spain, and drawing on interviews with the cantaoras themselves, Loren Chuse shows how flamenco is a complex of cultural practices at once musical, physical, verbal and social, involving the expression and negotiation of complex multi-layered identities, including notions of Andalusian, regional, gypsy and gender identity. Chuse shows how women are engaged in the formation of flamenco today, and how they respond to the balance and tensions between tradition and innovation. In so doing, she encourages a deeper appreciation of flamenco and initiates new approaches within ethnomusicology, feminist scholarship, flamenco, gender and popular music studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chuse, Loren

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Weltmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: An Andalusian Journey
Chapter Two: Traditional and Innovative Musical Practice in Flamenco
Chapter Three: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Singers
Chapter Four: Social and Political Conditions for Women and Their Impact on Cantaoras in Twentieth-Century Spain
Chapter Five: The Cantaora Today
Chapter Six: La Herencia: Traditions of Flamenco in Lebrija and Granada
Chapter Seven: Women and the Guitarra Flamenca
Chapter Eight: The Flamenco Copla: Themes, Archetypes, Stereotypes
Chapter Nine: The Social Construction of Flamenco Identity
Chapter Ten: Identity, Aesthetics, and Emotion
Glossary
References
Index