Carmen : a Gypsy Geography

Carmen : a Gypsy Geography / Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum.

Encounters with the Gypsy female flamenco dancer throughout history. The author traces the genealogy of the presence of the Romani woman in her iconic operatic role from her genesis in the ancient Mediterranean world, her emergence as flamenco artist in the architectural spaces of Islamic Spain, her...

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Main Author: Bennahum, Ninotchka
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Carmen (Fictitious character) > Historiography.
Romanies > Material culture.
Romanies > Social life and customs.
Romanies > Mediterranean Region.
Romanies > Spain.
Flamenco > Spain.
Flamenco > Social aspects > Spain.
ART > Performance.
ART > Reference.
Flamenco
Romanies
Romanies > Social life and customs
Mediterranean Region
Spain
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Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical Introduction
  • Inventing Carmen : Prosper Mérimée and the Gypsy Presence in Western Europe
  • Georges Bizet and the Genealogy of Carmen
  • Mythic Space and Ancient Carmen
  • The Gypsy Inside and Outside of History
  • Gypsies in the Dance Cafés of the Islamic Mediterranean
  • Picasso, the Bull, and Carmen
  • Space and Place in Islamic Spain : The Archeology of Flamenco
  • Carmen, a Close Reading of a Nomadic Opera.

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