The Flamenco Effect

Authenticity, Community and Tradition during the Golden Age

by Ian Biddle

[Primary sources in Spanish]

On this page please find links to key texts bout flamenco written during the Golden Age hosted on this site, as downloadable pdfs. This list is not comprehensive but indicative. New resources will be loaded here regularly: greyed out titles are coming soon.

Estébanez Calderón, Serafín, “Un baile en Triana,” in Escenas andaluzas (Madrid: Baltasar González, 1847), 241–254.

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Falla, Manuel de, El “cante jondo” (canto primitivo andaluz): sus orígenes, sus valores musicales, su influencia en el arte musical europeo (Granada: editorial Urania, 1922)

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García Lorca, Federico, Poema del cante jondo (Madrid: Ediciones Ulises, 1931).

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Machado y Álvarez, Antonio (Demófilo), Cantos populares españoles, recogidos (Seville: Francisco Álvarez y Comp., 1882–1883).

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Noel, Eugenio, Señoritos, chulos, fenómenos, gitanos y flamencos (Madrid: Renacimiento, 1916).

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Antonio López Sancho’s El concurso de cante jondo

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