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Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music)
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About Sonidos Negros: On The Blackness Of Flamenco
Product Description How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor became Black, and how this figure, enacted in terms of a minstrelized Gitano, paradoxically came to represent Spain itself. The imagined Gypsy about which flamenco imagery turns dances on a knife's edge delineating Christian and non-Christian, White and Black worlds. This figure's subversive teetering undermines Spain's symbolic linkage of religion with race, a prime weapon of conquest. Flamenco's Sonidos Negros live in this precarious balance, amid the purposeful confusion and ruckus cloaking embodied resistance, the lament for what has been lost, and the values and aspirations of those rendered imperceptible by enslavement and colonization. Review "It will be a critical addition not only to flamenco studies, but to a growing body of transatlantic performance scholarship...It is worth underlining, in closing, that it's a beautifully written book..." -- Michelle Clayton, Dance Research Journal " Sonidos Negros will become fundamental reading for flamenco scholars and offers innovative insights into the complex genealogy of the tradition's sub-Saharan and African-American roots. She convincingly shows how we can come to 'understand flamenco's pain, flamenco's soul ― flamenco's power, through the experience of Blackness' (16)." -- Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, University of Cambridge, European History Quarterly "Without doubt this work offers an original and novel approach, a book that no Spanish author could have written without having their perspective limited, contaminated by the social and historical context of our "blood." -- Sinfonía Virtual (translated) "A beautifully written book: while making space for all the lively, equivocating, mutable gestures which swarm across its pages ― creating a stage for bulla ― it's always attentive to narrative style, always concerned to shape those gestures into a movement sequence. Throughout its pages, the dancing body animates history." -- Dance Research Journal " Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco places the art of flamenco in new territory as a part of discourse on race and racism, spanning from medieval Spain to post-modern America Goldberg's research creates a new layer to the power of the double-faced expression of flamenco and its expression of resistance in a dance form that has been reproduced across the planet. Her research is an essential component in expanding the study of the history, evolution, and varied expressions of flamenco." -- Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review "Meira Goldberg analyzes, with notable erudition, how the politics of Blackness is inscribed in flamenco." -- Diario de Sevilla " Sonidos Negros explores unprecedented new ground, the interrelated politics of Blackness and flamenco dance. It does this from historical, anthropological, and sociological angles which until now have scarcely been tread. It is another way of viewing and interpreting history, which constructs unprecedented identities -- it identifies "Blackness" with "religious confusion" -- and unusual binaries -- blood purity/depravity, purity/impurity. It constitutes a complete challenge to traditionally assumed concepts." -- José Luis Navarro Garcia, author of Semillas de ébano: el elemento negro y afroamericano en el baile flamenco "Accessibly written and engaging, K. Meira Goldberg has gifted us an original monograph that will impress and tantalize a diverse array of readers across many scholarly disciplines in the humanities and social sciences." -- Black Perspectives " Sonidos Negros is a majestic work - readable, revelatory, and bringing to bear all Goldberg's previous work in research and practice to reach this tome of truth. She speaks in a voice both personal and professional, inviting us in to share
