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On Having a Deeper Appreciation for Flamenco

Music is an excellent art form that expresses feelings and emotions as affectingly as paintings, literature and other art form can do. It is at most employed for religious worship, for rituals and fiestas, as an conveyance of love, or sometimes as a a preceeding event to war.

Spain has a rich music and dance practice that really amazes the world until these days; Spanish music and dance inclined to be very iconic in the sense that they can be undeniably Spanish in origin because of salient points and features. After sometime, the Visigoths, an East Germanic tribe, and then the Jews arrived and next were the Moors; these influences from different countries resulted to Spain’s diverse musical style and form. To fully enjoy the art and music of Spain, you must get a hang of their language and understand their culture, and the easiest way to do that is by exploring websites like Rocket Spanish which gives free basic Language classes and free basic cultural lessons. Rocket Spanish lessons is a Computer Assisted Language Learning that can help you speak Spanish fluently.

When one talks of Spanish music and dance culture, there’s one particular style that is constantly present and which is often considered as representative of Spanish music and dance; Flamenco is, without a doubt, the most popular dance and music style of Spain. Ironically, Flamenco is actually not famous in the whole Spain; it’s only popularin a certain region, particularly the Andalusian region of Spain and in a few of the smaller surrounding regions. Its neighboring regions have music that can be very dissimilar from what Andalusia has because several different countries have affected Spain in the arts of music.

A popular music form that came from Spain is Flamenco, which a lot of people mistakenly considered to be the national music of Spain. The Flamenco’s swift, sweeping steps and quick foot work has been adapted by many dance cultures worldwide. It also portrays the unique culture of Spain; however, studies discovering the origins of Flamenco are still inconclusive until today.

Flamenco’s roots can be retraced back to Gypsies who have passed through or built their home in the Andausian vicinity during those times; this region was also populated by Jews, Moors, and other persecuted and discriminated groups. Andalusia was made up of gypsies, Jews, Moors, and other nationalities that were considered to be lower class during those times, and naturally they were disrespected by the upper class people back then. Because Flamenco was mostly performed by the lower levels of society, the upper class people does not have enough interest to give significance to it and the historians did not gave much attention to it and recorded very little information about it. Another important detail why it’s difficult to locate its beginnings is because the poor people who practiced the music only preserved the art by oral traditions because they do not have formal education and does not know how to write; in addition to that the poor people during those times were being persecuted during the Spanish Inquisition in 1492.

Regardless of the discrimination that Flamenco and its history went through, it still distinguished itself other cultures. In fact, it did not just remain in history but it became famous and really developed into a widely studied music and dance technique until today.

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