Duende: A Journey into the Heart of Flamenco [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Webster, Jason

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0767911660 ISBN 13: 9780767911665

Verlag: Broadway Books, 2003

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Provides a captivating odyssey into the passionate underworld of Spain's flamenco performers, chronicling his journey into a mysterious and dangerous world of flamenco music and dance, as well as its drugs, violence, and criminality.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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sic started: two guitarists beating out more Alboreás. The women took turns to dance in a frenzy, each trying to outdo the other. “Deep Song always sings in the night,” Lorca had written. It was the credo of the flamenco: a rejection of the mundane, the ordinary, the life of the everyday man, embracing, rather, an extreme world – extreme passions, extreme feelings, the extremes of life and death. And it was a way of life I wanted to believe in – its excitement, its danger, the affirmation it gave you that you were different, and alive.

Destined for a sedate and predictable life in academia, Jason Webster was derailed in his early twenties when his first love, an aloof Florentine beauty, dumped him unceremoniously. Loveless and eager for adventure – and determined to fulfill a secret dream -- he left Oxford and headed for Spain, the country that had long captivated his imagination, and set off in search of duende, th

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• Verlag: Broadway Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0767911660
• ISBN 13: 9780767911665
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328