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Palos

Tangos & Tientos: La Familia del 4 por 4

Flamenco's answer to the 4-beat

Not every flamenco palo lives in twelves. The tangos family — tangos flamencos, tientos, tanguillos, zambra — is firmly in 4/4, and arguably the most internationally accessible corner of the form.

#baile #sevilla #cante

By Carmen Ríos

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Palos

Soleá: La Madre del Cante

The mother of all flamenco singing

If flamenco has a foundational palo, it is the soleá — slow, dignified, twelve beats counted from one, and the structural template from which alegrías, bulerías and the cantiñas family all eventually grew.

#gitano #jondo #12-beat #sevilla #baile #cante

By Lola Vega

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Historia

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.

#sevilla #siglo-xix #cante

By Diego Morales

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Historia

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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