Transnational Flamenco: Exchange and the Individual in British and Spanish Flamenco Culture

by Tenley Martin

Overview

This book provides insight into how flamenco travels, the forms it assumes in new locales, and the reciprocal effects on the original scene. 

Utilising a postnational approach to cultural identity, Martin explores the role of non-native culture brokers in cultural transmission. This concept, referred to as ‘cosmopolitan human hubs’, builds on Kiwan and Meinhof’s ‘hubs’ theory of network migration to move cultural migration and globalisation studies forwards. Martin outlines a post-globalisation flamenco culture through analysis of ethnographic research carried out in the UK, Sevilla and Madrid. Insight into these glocal scenes characterises flamenco as a historically globalized art complex, represented in various hubs around the world.

This alternative approach to music migration and globalisation studies will be of interest to students and scholars across leisure studies, musicology, sociology and anthropology.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030371999
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	01/20/2020
Series:	Leisure Studies in a Global Era
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Tenley Martin is Senior Lecturer in Music at Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. An Overview of Flamenco and Globalisation.- 3.  Sevilla: Local Scenes and Ex-Pat Communities.- 4. Madrid: The Consummate Professional Scene.- 5. Flamenca Britannica: One Foot in Andalucía.- 6. Connected by the Compás: An Analysis of Cultural Transmission between Spain and the UK.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“In a globalizing world, it is of huge importance to understand not only the mobility of persons or objects, but also the mobility of ideas and cultural expertise. Transnational Flamenco is an outstanding ethnomusicological study on the manifold connections between Flamenco hubs across Spain and the UK.”— Larissa Schindler, Institute for Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

“Martin’s study of flamenco draws on her experience of seeing ex-pat communities in Spain interacting with local culture, as well as efforts to transmit flamenco outside Spain. She describes the formation of ‘cosmopolitan hubs’, whose drivers are not necessarily ethnically or nationally connected with the culture they transfer across borders; instead, they are people who have simply immersed themselves in that culture. A lively and enjoyable book – and not just for the flamenco aficionado!” —Derek B. Scott, University of Leeds, UK

Editorial Reviews

This is a book about individuals, and his house was a meeting place between Spanish and London flamenco for decades. If you want to hear the voices of the people who create flamenco in Britain and to think about what that creative action involves and achieves, Tenley Martin’s book is the best available guide.” (Brendan Larvor, Flamenco News, January, 2021)

From the Publisher