Posts tagged #siglo-xix

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.

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.