Flamenco on the global stage historical, critical and theoretical perspectives edited by K. Meira Goldberg, Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum and Michelle Heffner Hayes.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices.

Part I--Mapping Spanish dance on the international stage : Three centuries of flamenco: some brief historical notes/ Marta Carrasco Benitez. -- Ancient dancers of Cadiz, Puellae Gaditane and creations of myth/ Kathy Milazzo. --- Hopeful futures and nostalgic pasts: explorations into Kathak and flamenco dance collaborations/ Miriam Phillips. -- From the jaraca to the sarabande/ Ana Yepes. -- Spanish dance in Europe: from the late Eighteenth Century to its consolidation on the European stage/ Rocio Plaza Orellana. --Fandangos and bailes: dancing and dance events in Early California/ Anthony Shay. -- Hispanomania in Nineteenth Century dance theory and choreography/ Claudia Jeschke with Robert Atwood. -- Some notes toward a historiography of the ¬Mid-Nineteenth Century bailable español/ Kiko Mora. -- Antecedents of Carmen in the history of Spanish dance/ Gerhard Steingress. -- Part II: Becoming Flamenco: Gitano embodiment and modernist subjectivity Jaleo de Jerez and Tumulte Noir: primitivist modernism and cakewalk in Flamenco, 1902-1917/ K. Meira Goldberg. -- The first academy of flamenco dance: Frasquillo and the "broken dance" of the gitanos/ Clara Chinoy. -- The critical reception of Le Tricorne/ Joan Acocella. - Purity and commercialization: the view from two working artists, Pericon de Cadiz and Chato de la Isla/ John C. Moore. -- Carmen Amaya, 1947: The (gypsy) beloved of America reconquers Europe/ Montse Madridejos. -- Flamenco: the real stories/ Brook Zern. -- Spanish artists in love and war, 1913-1945: meditations on female embodiment and populist imagination/ Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum. -- Part III: Disobedient bodies: flamenco in the "new" world : normative aesthetics and cultural constructions in flamenco dance: female and gitano bodies as legitimizers of tradition/ Cristina ¬Cruces-Roldan. -- Las Tocaoras: women guitarists and their struggle for inclusion on the flamenco stage/ Loren Chuse. -- Dancing the ideal masculinity/ Ryan Rockmore. -- Flamenco in La flor de mi secreto: re-appropriation and subversion in a film by Pedro Almodovar/ Nancy G. Heller. -- Flamenco fusion: ¬cross-cultural coalitions and the art of raising consciousness/ Jorge Perez. -- Y para rematar: contemplations on a movement in transition/ Niurca Marquez. -- Blancanieves, flamenco and national identity/ William Washabaugh. -- Choreographing contemporaneity: cultural legacy and experimental imperative/ Michelle Heffner Hayes

"This collection of new essays by flamenco historians, critics and cultural theorists provides an overview of flamenco scholarship, illuminating flamenco's narrative and addressing some of the stereotypes that exist in flamenco studies. The contributors bring new information into flamenco's chronology, offer fresh perspectives on age-old themes and suggest new paradigms for flamenco as a cultural practice"