Gypsy cante : deep song of the caves / selected and translated by Will Kirkland.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Kirkland, Will, 1943-

Language:

• English
• Spanish

Subjects (All):

• Folk songs, Spanish--Spain--Texts.
• Flamenco--Texts.
• Flamenco.
• Folk songs, Spanish.
• Spain.

Physical Description:

xiv, 111 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, 1999.

Summary:

• Andalusian Gypsies developed over many years the cante jondo, or deep song, an art that grew organically from their experience of pain and joy, love and grief. This extraordinary art is a communal possession, kept alive and aflame by unlettered geniuses, passed along in ecstatic dance and song from generation to generation.
• A la vera tuya
• To your side
• no puedo volver... I cannot return . . .
• Como por unas palabritas locas
• How is it for some crazy words
• se pierde un querer!
• such love is gone!
• Although flamenco music enjoys wide popularity, the words of the songs are often lost in the passion of the performance, or because they are sung in dialect. This illustrated book brings together a sampling of the striking imagery and emotional purity that inspired Federico Garcia Lorca and his generation of Spanish poets. Providing context for these lyrics are photographs and drawings, excerpts from letters, descriptions of first-hand experiences at spontaneous performances, and commentaries on Gypsy cante by noted poets, musicians, and philosophers.
• Lorca wrote, "It is wondrous and strange how in just three or four lines the anonymous and never published poet can condense all the highest emotional moments of human life. There is much more mystery in these two lines than in all the plays of Maeterlink. Simple, genuine mystery, clean and sound, without gloomy forests or rudderless ships:
• Cerco tiene la luna
• There's a halo round the moon
• mi amor ha muerto.
• My love has died."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0872863611

OCLC:

42592766