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Flamenco Baby

Author : Cherry Radford

Publisher : Author Essentials (Indepenpress)

Page : 396 pages

File Size : 14,10 MB

Release : 2013-02-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781780035260

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Musician and dance enthusiast Yolande has just finished with yet another faithless boyfriend, even though her body clock is ticking wildly and she longs for a child. However much gay best friend and ideal man Jeremy adores her, he refuses to be the father. Should she relent and take back her repentant ex? Conceive with a sperm donor? She has become entranced by flamenco, music of the outcasts - could seeds secretly planted at a London flamenco evening with enigmatic dancer Fernando Morales begin to flower into a 'flamenco baby'? Then, while Yolande starts a cosy relationship with a teacher on her flamenco course in Granada, Jeremy becomes drawn to Fernando - and so begins a whirl of secrecy, love and jealousy that has them all wondering if, in the spirit of flamenco, they dare to give the truth.



Flamenco

Author : Claus Schreiner

Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation

Page : 180 pages

File Size : 17,60 MB

Release : 1990

Category : Music

ISBN : 9781574670134

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Written by a group of dedicated flamenco enthusiasts, this book traces the history and development of the art of flamenco, that proud, soulful, stirring folk music and dance created by the gypsies of the Andalusian region of Spain in the 19th century. The essays examine the musical, artistic, and spiritual aspects of flamenco as well as its social context and history. The great performers both past and present are identified and discussed.



¡Olé! Flamenco

Author : George Ancona

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 31,48 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Belpré Honor book

ISBN : 9781600603617

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FLAMENCO-it's dancing, it's singing, it's guitar playing! It's a way of expressing oneself that has evolved from many influences over hundreds of years. Today flamenco is practiced throughout the world and all across the United States. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, we meet Janira Cordova, the youngest member of a company studying to perform flamenco. Here the students learn the tools of their art-how to move their hands, arms, bodies, and feet to the traditional rhythms of the music and songs. Each aspect of flamenco is explored in detail. The origins of the art form are also explained, which draw upon the musical traditions of Indian, Arab, and North African cultures, among others. Janira's flamenco has progressed well, and at Santa Fe's annual Spanish Market in July, she finally has a chance to join the older dancers and perform in the town plaza. With colorful, action-packed photographs and accessible text, readers are sure to feel Janira's excitement and catch flamenco fever. �Ol�!



Lola's Fandango

Author : Anna Witte

Publisher : Barefoot Books

Page : 35 pages

File Size : 16,11 MB

Release : 2018-09-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 178285505X

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Little Lola is tired of living in her big sisters shadow. But when she starts taking secret flamenco lessons from her Papi, will she find the courage to share her new skill with the world?



Flamenco and Bullfighting

Author : Adair Landborn

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 309 pages

File Size : 20,3 MB

Release : 2015-09-16

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0786496169

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Flamenco dance and bullfighting are parallel arts with shared traditions, performance conventions and vocabularies of movement. This volume introduces readers to an ongoing discussion in Spanish scholarship about the links between these two quintessentially Spanish arts. The author--a dancer and a student of bullfighting--describes the informal practice of both arts in private settings and their emergence as formal public rituals in the bullfighting arena and on the flamenco stage. Key bullfighting techniques and their influence on flamenco dance style are discussed in the context of understanding the worldview and kinesthetic culture of Spain.



Flamenco, Regionalism and Musical Heritage in Southern Spain

Author : Matthew Machin-Autenrieth

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 49,31 MB

Release : 2016-07-28

Category : Music

ISBN : 1317134834

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Flamenco, Regionalism and Musical Heritage in Southern Spain explores the relationship between regional identity politics and flamenco in Andalusia, the southernmost autonomous community of Spain. In recent years, the Andalusian Government has embarked on an ambitious project aimed at developing flamenco as a symbol of regional identity. In 2010, flamenco was recognised as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, a declaration that has reinvigorated institutional support for the tradition. The book draws upon ethnomusicology, political geography and heritage studies to analyse the regionalisation of flamenco within the frame of Spanish politics, while considering responses among Andalusians to these institutional measures. Drawing upon ethnographic research conducted online and in Andalusia, the book examines critically the institutional development of flamenco, challenging a fixed reading of the relationship between flamenco and regionalism. The book offers alternative readings of regionalism, exploring the ways in which competing localisms and disputed identities contribute to a fresh understanding of the flamenco tradition. Matthew Machin-Autenrieth makes a significant contribution to flamenco scholarship in particular and to the study of music, regionalism and heritage in general.



Celebrating Flamenco's Tangled Roots

Author : K. Meira Goldberg

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Page : 492 pages

File Size : 48,58 MB

Release : 2022-01-18

Category : Art

ISBN : 1527579425

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This collection of essays poses a series of questions revolving around nonsense, cacophony, queerness, race, and the dancing body. How can flamenco, as a diasporic complex of performance and communities of practice frictionally and critically bound to the complexities of Spanish history, illuminate theories of race and identity in performance? How can we posit, and argue for, genealogical relationships within and between genres across the vast expanses of the African—and Roma—diaspora? Neither are the essays presented here limited to flamenco, nor, consequently, are the responses to these questions reduced to this topic. What all the contributions here do share is the wish to come together, across disciplines and subject areas, within the academy and without, in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning, as well as the depths of the wisdom and knowledge it holds and sometimes reveals.



Men Dancing

Author : Cherry Radford

Publisher : Author Essentials (Indepenpress)

Page : 342 pages

File Size : 32,16 MB

Release : 2011-10

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 9781780033075

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A chance meeting with a performer you've always admired - an exciting story to tell your family and friends. But not if that excitement won't go away, and turns into the chronic ache of obsession...Dr Rosie Buchanan - weary hospital scientist, frustrated musician, cheated wife and struggling mother - finds herself sitting next to charismatic Royal Ballet star Alejandro Cortes on a London train. Half an hour and a shared bag of errant Maltesers later, she starts to feel she's misheard her true calling - and is soon doing research of a very different kind. Rosie arranges a bogus research visit at Alejandro's home, and is thrilled when he and his girlfriend ask her to become their piano teacher. And she tries to overcome the pain of her failing marriage to former soulmate Jez, and the obsession with Alejandro, by accepting consolation from an old friend, consultant Ricardo Pereira. But so begins a complex dance of passion, betrayal, loss and redemption... Sensual, witty, and at times deeply moving, Cherry Radford's first novel is a sweeping tour-de-force. - "A great read for Strictly fans" Sir Bruce Forsyth CBE



A Struggle for Independence

Author : Sandra Lowery

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 27,65 MB

Release : 2015-01-09

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 149905095X

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A Struggle for Independence is a true story based on my personal life as someone who has lived with mild Cerebral palsy and the many goals I have accomplished such as walking at twenty months old and speaking, driving a car at age seventeen, another was motherhood at age thirty-five which was a huge victory for me. I gave birth to a healthy normal baby girl, who is the joy of my life. I have overcome many obstacles in spite of the prejudice and ignorance that I have faced with society. I was raised in a military family that moved around from state to state and lived in Europe as well. I'm the oldest of four siblings. As the oldest I was responsible for my younger siblings, one of them, a precocious younger sister who forced me to excel in ways that weren't expected. In addition, my mother had the insight to allow me to do things on my own without any interference. This story leads you from tears to laughter. You might ask yourself does her struggle with independence have to do with her physical disability or society itself? I hope my story inspires others like myself to write their story.



Blackening Europe

Author : Heike Raphael-Hernandez

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 40,56 MB

Release : 2012-11-12

Category : History

ISBN : 1136072020

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Traditional Scholars have often looked at African American studies through the lens of European theories, resulting in the secondarization of the African American presence in Europe and its contributions to European culture. Blackening Europe reverses this pattern by using African American culture as the starting point for a discussion of its influences over traditional European structures. Evidence of Europe's blackening abound, form French ministers of Hip-hop and British incarnations of "Shaft" to slavery memorial in the Netherlands and German youth sporting dreadlocks. Collecting essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic and fields as diverse as history, literature, politics, social studies, art, film and music, Blackening Europe explores the implications of these cultural hybrids and extends the growing dialogues about Europe's fascination with African America.