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Flamenco is always a roundtrip song.
This Spanish expression refers to a specific selection of the flamenco song that “travelled back” from Latin America, when Spanish music traditions and rhythms brought by African slaves and Native Americans were transformed into new forms, which were reintroduced in Spain with a different rhythm structure and mellower features than traditional flamenco. Not only guajiras or milongas, but also soleá and seguiriya, romances, cabales, peteneras and pregones in the vast Afro-Andalusian Caribbean. And the fandango, of course. This roundtrip is the same one for sugar, coffee, cocoa and cane rum, but was interrupted between 1810 and 1898 and flamenco music went back to what it was before.
Location: Rivoli Café
This Spanish expression refers to a specific selection of the flamenco song that “travelled back” from Latin America, when Spanish music traditions and rhythms brought by African slaves and Native Americans were transformed into new forms, which were reintroduced in Spain with a different rhythm structure and mellower features than traditional flamenco. Not only guajiras or milongas, but also soleá and seguiriya, romances, cabales, peteneras and pregones in the vast Afro-Andalusian Caribbean. And the fandango, of course. This roundtrip is the same one for sugar, coffee, cocoa and cane rum, but was interrupted between 1810 and 1898 and flamenco music went back to what it was before.
Location: Rivoli Café
