Flamenco Nation

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The Construction of Spanish National Identity

Sandie Eleanor Holguín

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University of Wisconsin Press
11 June 2019

Dance; Folk dancing; European history

How did flamenco—a song and dance form associated with both a despised ethnic minority in Spain and a region frequently derided by Spaniards—become so inexorably tied to the country’s culture? Sandie Holguín focuses on the history of the form and how reactions to the performances transformed from disgust to reverance over the course of two centuries.

Holguín brings forth an important interplay between regional nationalists and image makers actively involved in building a tourist industry. Soon they realized flamenco performances could be turned into a folkloric attraction that could stimulate the economy. Tourists and Spaniards alike began to cultivate flamenco as a representation of the country's national identity. This study reveals not only how Spain designed and promoted its own symbol but also how this cultural form took on a life of its own.

By: Sandie Eleanor Holguín
Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 705g
ISBN: 9780299321802
ISBN 10: 0299321800
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 11 June 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sandie Holguín is an associate professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, where she teaches European cultural and intellectual history and European feminist thought and gender studies. She specializes in Spanish history and is the author of Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain.

Reviews for Flamenco Nation: The Construction of Spanish National Identity

Holgu n's well-written, witty, and scholarly book on flamenco and the shaping of modern Spanish national identity helps us understand the enigmatic tension between Spaniards' often ambivalent attitudes toward flamenco and the art form's enormous success beyond Iberia. --Enrique Sanabria, University of New Mexico As bracing as the clicking of castanets, this book plunges the reader into the history of flamenco and charts how this art form became quintessentially Spanish. Holgu n demonstrates how music and dance take on nationalist overtones--and does so with such verve. --Clinton Young, author of Music Theater and Popular Nationalism in Spain, 1880-1930