Flamenco’s relationship with technology is examined here as a complex negotiation between the “living word” and the “dead letter” of the machine. This page investigates how early performers did not merely submit to sound recording and visual media, but actively instrumentalised them as a means of professional legitimation and “vernacular agency”. We reflect on the “ontological crisis” precipitated by the phonograph—a device that promised immortality while simultaneously threatening to “fossilise” a fluid, oral tradition. This section seeks to understand how the “machinic” and the “somatic” became mutually constitutive in the twentieth-century media regime.
Below, please see my latest posts about flamenco and #technology:
The Flamenco Effect 