Llano, Samuel ~ Discordant Notes: Marginality and Social Control in Madrid, 1850-1930 Introduction The demographic and socioeconomic makeup of large industrial(izing) centers in Europe were rapidly changing during late 19th, early 20th C. Population growth and rural-to-urban migration led to rising levels of crime, poverty, and epidemics. In Madrid, measures to control these issues were largely and consistently inefficient, partly due to the general mistrust in the… Read More
Alsonso, Celsa ~ Musica y Construccion Nacional en Espana: Teatro Muiscal, Cine y Musica Popular (1900-1936) Author begins from the premise that, in the Spain of the turn of the 20th century, theatre and cinema are places of convergence between what they regard as competing sentiments between the national and the cosmopolitan, the traditional (regional) and the modern (European). From as early as the Golden era, Spanish theatre has had a… Read More
Onto-Epistemologies of Flamenco List: January Updates Social History of Flamenco Articulations of (counter)modernity Articulations of (counter)national history Flamenco Bodies as Archives (In)Authenticity and (Im)Purity Technologies of Capture (Film) The Beyond… Read More
Body, Archive, Performance How does the body do the work of the archive? How does it transmit knowledge? Can it? Can it express an ontoepistemological order or sociopolitical reality? Firstly, I want to engage with texts that center the body as a repository of a given ontoepistemology, cultural memory, or as a mnemonic device, in the Performance Studies… Read More
On the Archive: M. Foucault, D. Taylor, TBC Foucault’s Archive For F, all utterances happen within a system of what can and cannot be said: the archive is what differentially organizes these utterances within a constituting system, which, at the same time, is constituted by the utterances as they get categorized—archived—as unique events or statements (rather than… rather than not?). The archive doesn’t… Read More
Notes: My Flamenco Sub-List Part of the texts in this list will help me frame Flamenco as an object of study in order to draw a conceptual sketch of what it may mean to be (of), and know (through) Flamenco’s decolonial possibilities. Flamenco: not just an aesthetic, not just a musical modality, but also a sociopolitical phenomenon that informs… Read More
Reading List: Onto-Epistemologies of Flamenco Nation Cruces-Roldán, Cristina. “Bailes Boleros y Flamencos En Los Primeros Cortometrajes Mudos. Narrativas y Arquetipos Sobre «lo Español» En Los Albores Del Siglo XX.” Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, vol. 71, no. 2, Dec. 2016, pp. 441–65. doaj.org, https://doi.org/10.3989/rdtp.2016.02.005. Llano, Samuel. “Flamenco, Flamenquismo, and Social Control.” Discordant Notes: Marginality and Social Control in Madrid,… Read More