Flamenco
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-3923-2 (ISBN)
This analytical history traces representations of flamenco dance in Spain and abroad from the twentieth century to the present, using histories, film, accounts of live performances, and practitioner interviews.
Beginning with an analysis of flamenco historiography, the text examines images of the female dancer in films by Luis Bunuel, Carlos Saura, and Antonio Gades; stereotypes of flamenco bodies and Andalusian culture in Prosper Merimee's Carmen; and the ways in which contemporary flamenco dancers like Belen Maya and Rocio Molina negotiate the stereotype of Carmen and an idealized Spanish feminine that pervades "traditional" flamenco.
Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Michelle Heffner Hayes, dancer, choreographer and dance scholar is currently a professor and chair of the Department of Dance at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Flamenco’s Exotic Currency
1. DESIRING NARRATIVES: FLAMENCO IN HISTORY AND FILM
Conflicting Histories
Origin Points
Romantic Excursions
La Edad de Oro/The Golden Age
Transformation Abroad and Tourism at Home
Purity and Preservation
The Ideology of Flamenco Histories
The Desiring Subject
A Choreographic In(ter)vention
Film Narrative as a Discourse of Desire
2. PURISM, TOURISM AND LOST INNOCENCE
Flamenco Bodies: Essence or Effect?
International Exposure
Model Exotics
Paradise Lost
The Taint of Tourism
3. IMAGINING ANDALUSIA
Divine Inspiration: Origins Reconsidered
Passionate Nature: The Academic Appeal of a Universal Humanity
Sober Clinicism: Demystifying the Other
(Re)discovering the Women in Cante
4. FATAL FILMIC FLAMENCAS
The Spectre of Carmen
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Marked: The Character of La Novia in Blood Wedding (1981)
Carmen Revisited (1983)
Love, the Magician (1986)
5. REALISM REINVENTED
The Documentary and Nacionalflamenquismo 124
Sevillanas (1992) and Flamenco (1995)
Opening Credits (Sevillanas)
Opening Credits (Flamenco)
The Performances (Sevillanas)
The Performances (Flamenco)
Sevillanas Flamencas, Sevillanas Gitanas
Endings: Sevillanas
Endings: Flamenco
Flamenco Women (1997)
6. REINTERPRETING THE EXOTIC
Calculated Unruliness
Strategic Presence
Practiced Spontaneity
The Dancing Lesson (Anaheim, California, 1995)
The Problem of Improvisation/Giving Up the Ghost
Rising from the Ashes: Spain’s Position in the New World Order
7. “SOMOS ANTI-GUAPAS”—AGAINST BEAUTY IN CONTEMPORARY FLAMENCO
Belén Maya
Pastora Galván
Rocío Molina
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.4.2009 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 28 photos, notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 290 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7864-3923-8 / 0786439238 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-3923-2 / 9780786439232 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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