The Flamenco Effect

Authenticity, Community and Tradition during the Golden Age

by Ian Biddle

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  • Flamenco and its dangers

    To say I am in love with flamenco would be a significant understatement. My obsession began in the 1990s as a sudden, powerful fascination from which I have never quite recovered. However, I must also recognise a specific and complex danger within this passion: the risk that such love devolves into a fixation, a fetish,…