More than 250 quatrains of love and loss, the texts to those inimitable flamenco performances - these are the songs that are wailed by those keening male voices, as the red-and-black-clad women dancers stamp, pirouette and fire castanet rhythms at machine-gun pace. Not high art certainly, but a part of deeper fabric of the real Spain, and a powerful influence on poets such Lorca.
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More than 250 quatrains of love and loss, the texts to those inimitable flamenco performances - these are the songs that are wailed by those keening male voices, as the red-and-black-clad women dancers stamp, pirouette and fire castanet rhythms at machine-gun pace.
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Product details

ISBN
9781848612105
Published
2012-02-15
Publisher
Shearsman Books; Shearsman Books
Weight
157 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
6 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
116