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Monday, August 27, 2018

I'm reading a book about flamenco.  In 50 pages I've read so far, I found exactly two ideas that actually relate to anything musical. The book is clotted with Deleuzian theory and explains concepts that could be applied equally to anything else. To top it off, the guy can't write very well.

It's all about the way flamenco has symbolic capital in Andalusia, and the multiple contradictions of that. The ideas are interesting, even when poorly expressed, but it's not exactly what I had in mind when I pulled it off the shelf in the library.

Cameron isn't in the index.  We shall see...

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