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- Examines cultural migration and globalization studies not only through their role at home but also the reciprocal affect on the scene in Spain
- Questions the concept of flamenco as Spanish national identity and instead suggests it as a historically globalized art complex
- Provides a detailed examination of the formation and nature of the British flamenco scene
Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
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)
“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
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Film, Music and Performing Art, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK
Tenley Martin
About the author
Tenley Martin is Senior Lecturer in Music at Leeds Beckett University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational Flamenco
Book Subtitle: Exchange and the Individual in British and Spanish Flamenco Culture
Authors: Tenley Martin
Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37199-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37198-2Published: 21 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37201-9Published: 21 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37199-9Published: 20 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 296
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology of Culture, Dance, Music