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5th Aug 2024

The Golden Age, 1860–1910

Cuando el flamenco se hizo arte

The fifty years between the rise of the cafés cantantes and the First World War produced the figures, the repertoire, and the recordings that still define the canon of flamenco.

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By Diego Morales

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Historia

25th Jul 2024

Cafés Cantantes: Where Flamenco Got a Stage

How the 1860s commercialised an oral tradition

Until the mid-19th century flamenco lived in private. Then a singer named Silverio Franconetti opened a café in Seville, and within twenty years the entire art had been professionalised, theatricalised, and irrevocably changed.

#sevilla #siglo-xix #andalucía

By Diego Morales

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Historia

10th Jul 2024

The Romani Roots of Flamenco

How a centuries-long migration ended in Andalusia

Flamenco is uniquely Andalusian, but the people most responsible for shaping it had been on the road for a thousand years before they arrived in Spain. A short history of the gitanos and their music.

#gitano #andalucía

By Carmen Ríos

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