It is a collection of flamenco verses presented in both Spanish and English translation. This thin volume is just what I've been looking for. So I've pretty much been flying blind all these years, hearing and feeling the emotional impact of the song, without knowing what it was about (except in the most general terms). And Flamenco CDs never seem to include printed copies of the lyrics. I love flamenco singing ( cante), but I don't speak a word of Spanish, so I can't follow the words. This thin volume is just what I've been looking f I've been playing flamenco guitar (off and on) and listening to flamenco music for roughly thirty years. I've been playing flamenco guitar (off and on) and listening to flamenco music for roughly thirty years. Kirkland's 1999 Gypsy Cante: Deep Song of the Caves is the first collection of cante lyrics translated to English. Poet Federico Garcia Lorca and composer Manuel Falla convened a 1922 conference in Granada that sought both to rescue the authentic forms of the music and to protect it from commercial exploitation. Antonio Machado y Alvarez published the first modern Spanish documentation of flamenco lyrics, music, and singers in 1888. His very helpful introduction reviews the history of cante jondo, a form of flamenco, which originated in the pain of the exiled and marginalized Gypsies who settled centuries ago in Andalusia, in southern Spain. Present a small bilingual sampling of some of the most striking cante I have found over the years, with their themes of jail, bloody encounters, violent death, love and love betrayed, the loss of a mother, a brother, a dear friend, a lover.He succeeded admirably.
Translator and editor Will Kirkland, a poet himself, set out to: His very helpful introduction reviews the history of cante jondo, a form of flamenco, which origin When I sing as I please, I taste blood in my mouth. ~ Tia Anica la Pirinaca Translator and editor Will Kirkland, a poet himself, set out to: present a small bilingual sampling of some of the most striking cante I have found over the years, with their themes of jail, bloody encounters, violent death, love and love betrayed, the loss of a mother, a brother, a dear friend, a lover.He succeeded admirably.
When I sing as I please, I taste blood in my mouth.