Flamenco: Conflicting Histories of the Dance

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments     
• Introduction: Flamenco’s Exotic Currency     
• 1. DESIRING NARRATIVES: FLAMENCO IN HISTORY AND FILM     
• Conflicting Histories     
• Origin Points     
• Romantic Excursions     
• La Edad de Oro/The Golden Age     
• Transformation Abroad and Tourism at Home
• Purity and Preservation     
• The Ideology of Flamenco Histories     
• The Desiring Subject     
• A Choreographic In(ter)vention     
• Film Narrative as a Discourse of Desire     
• 2. PURISM, TOURISM AND LOST INNOCENCE     
• Flamenco Bodies: Essence or Effect?     
• International Exposure     
• Model Exotics     
• Paradise Lost     
• The Taint of Tourism     
• 3. IMAGINING ANDALUSIA     
• Divine Inspiration: Origins Reconsidered     
• Passionate Nature: The Academic Appeal of a Universal Humanity     
• Sober Clinicism: Demystifying the Other     
• (Re)discovering the Women in Cante     
• 4. FATAL FILMIC FLAMENCAS     
• The Spectre of Carmen     
• That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)     
• Marked: The Character of La Novia in Blood Wedding (1981)     
• Carmen Revisited (1983)     
• Love, the Magician (1986)     
• 5. REALISM REINVENTED     
• The Documentary and Nacionalflamenquismo 124
• Sevillanas (1992) and Flamenco (1995)     
• Opening Credits (Sevillanas)
• Opening Credits (Flamenco)     
• The Performances (Sevillanas)     
• The Performances (Flamenco)     
• Sevillanas Flamencas, Sevillanas Gitanas     
• Endings: Sevillanas     
• Endings: Flamenco     
• Flamenco Women (1997)     
• 6. REINTERPRETING THE EXOTIC     
• Calculated Unruliness     
• Strategic Presence     
• Practiced Spontaneity     
• The Dancing Lesson (Anaheim, California, 1995)
• The Problem of Improvisation/Giving Up the Ghost     
• Rising from the Ashes: Spain’s Position in the New World Order     
• 7. “SOMOS ANTI-GUAPAS”—AGAINST BEAUTY IN CONTEMPORARY FLAMENCO
• Belén Maya     
• Pastora Galván     
• Rocío Molina     
• Chapter Notes     
• Bibliography     
• Index