Cantes Flamencos (Flamenco Songs)

More than 250 quatrains of love and loss, the texts to those inimitable flamenco performances - these are the songs that are wailed by those keening male voices, as the red-and-black-clad women dancers stamp, pirouette and fire castanet rhythms at machine-gun pace. Not high art certainly, but a part of deeper fabric of the real Spain, and a powerful influence on poets such Lorca.

• | Author: Michael Smith
• | Publisher: Shearsman Books
• | Publication Date: Feb 15, 2012
• | Number of Pages: 116 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1848612109
• | ISBN-13: 9781848612105