Description: Flamenco is renowned for its passion and flamboyance. Yet because it generates such visceral responses, it is often overlooked as a site for subtler discourses. This absorbing book articulates powerful and convincing arguments on such key subjects as ethnicity, irony, authenticity, the body and resistance.
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"... [a] closely argued and intriguing book." --The Times Literary Supplement
"I would recommend this book as a useful, even essential, addition to any (ethnomusicologist's) library, both for its contribution to the field of flamenco studies and fo r its engagement with a range of topical themes and theoretical concerns and the author's laudable attempt to propose, in light of these, fresh ways of looking at the flamenco phenomenon." --British Journal of Ethnomusicology "The social and politi cal context of the performance is well-documented." --The Journal of Iberian and Latin-American Studies "...provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of flamenco and other aspects of Andalusian society." --South European Society and Poli tics "His [Washabaugh's] book is to be heartily recommended" --Hispanic Research Journal "... a valuable and very welcome introduction to some of the political dimensions of flamencology ..." --Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute