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In Sonidos Negros, readers learn how Flamenco's sensuality, quixotic idealism, and fierce soulfulness echo with contests that trace the rise and fall of the Spanish empire. From Inquisitional certifications of blood purity to Christmas pageants staged throughout the Americas, flamenco's Janus-faced stage Gypsy walks a knife's edge between Blackness and Whiteness.
About the author
K. Meira Goldberg is a flamenco performer, teacher, choreographer and historian. She teaches at Fashion Institute of Technology and is Scholar in Residence at the Foundation for Iberian Music at the CUNY Grad Center. She has taught and guest lectured at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, Flamenco Festival International in Albuquerque, Ballet Hispanico, Bryn Mawr, Princeton, Duke, Juilliard, The New School, and Smith College.
Summary
In Sonidos Negros, readers learn how Flamenco's sensuality, quixotic idealism, and fierce soulfulness echo with contests that trace the rise and fall of the Spanish empire. From Inquisitional certifications of blood purity to Christmas pageants staged throughout the Americas, flamenco's Janus-faced stage Gypsy walks a knife's edge between Blackness and Whiteness.
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One of the strengths of this book is the author's ability to synthesize an array of genres and dances that criss-cross centuries, geographies and sacred/secular domains. As such, the book goes beyond simply flamenco scholarship and will be of interest to theorists of Blackness, dance historians and ethnomusicologists ... Drawing on years of in-depth historical research, Goldberg has produced an important and complex scholarly contribution. Sonidos Negros will become fundamental reading for flamenco scholars and offers innovative insights into the complex genealogy of the tradition's sub-Saharan and African-American roots.
