Listening Guide. New Flamenco. Flamenco Special

Those other flamencos

Martín Guijarro, November 2005

Despite the many attempts to keep it isolated, the truth is that flamenco is by nature an entirely pervious type of music. Beginning in the sixties, pop and rock, music in full effervescence in the outside world, started to invade Spain through the ever-so-small openings left by Franco's dictatorship. And they soaked up musicians raised in flamenco culture, but anxious to look outwards. Since then, the expansion of the phenomenon of fusions and encounters has been unstoppable and multiform over thirty years. Flamenco with pop, rock, rumba, hip hop, electronic music... Here is an aid to help one manage amidst the dozens of albums fitting into this jumble called new flamenco.

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