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What are the primary sources for a history of flamenco’s Golden Age?
Constructing a history of flamenco’s Golden Age requires navigating a complex landscape of traditional archives and ephemeral traces. Because this period coincides with the rise of industrial modernity, the primary sources are not limited to written texts but extend into the realms of the visual and the acoustic. These sources reveal the “Flamenco Effect” in…
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Flamenco and technology in the Golden Age: media, power, and the machine
The “Golden Age” of flamenco (la edad de oro) is often romanticised as a period of pure, unmediated expression. However, a media-archaeological perspective reveals that this era was defined by a profound encounter between traditional practices and the vanguard technologies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Far from being a passive subject of modernisation, flamenco…
The Flamenco Effect 