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flamenco

music and dance
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Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum
Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Theatre, Long Island University, Long Island, New York. Author of Antonia Mercé "La Argentina": Flamenco and the Spanish Avant-Garde.
Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum
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flamenco, form of song, dance, and instrumental (mostly guitar) music commonly associated with the Andalusian Roma (Gypsies) of southern Spain. (There, the Roma people are called Gitanos.) The roots of flamenco, though somewhat mysterious, seem to lie in the Roma migration from Rajasthan (in northwest India) to Spain between the 9th and 14th centuries. These migrants brought with them musical instruments, such as tambourines, bells, and wooden castanets, and an extensive repertoire of songs and...

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