Invited to Spain in November by André Soria Olmedo to talk about Lorca and flamenco. So I'm starting my paper now. I realize that I need to be writing toward something in order to write. This is the first time in a while I really really like working.
Anyway, my idea has been that flamenco and poetry of the canon (like Lorca) are involved in increasing each other's prestige, reciprocally. Today I came up with a kind of twist on this: for this to work, the musical setting must appear "natural" in some way (unforced). This means that the listener has to feel a connection between the music and the words, and that the cultural worlds of the original poem and the musical setting cannot be too distant (or be perceived as too distant.)
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