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Flamenco is a folk art from Spain: in fact, a whole culture. ...
Flamenco is a tripartite art, involving singing, dance and the guitar simultaneously - as well as rhytmic punctuation (by hand-claps and other methods) that is considered an art form in its own right. There are hundreds of different types of pieces within flamenco, which have generic names such as seguiriyas, soleares, alegrías, malagueñas, fandangos, zapateado, rondeña, etc. ...
Origins
It his though that what was to evolve into flamenco existed as far back as the 16 th century. The flamenco song (or cante, as it is known) involves a synthesis of at least four cultures:
the Gypsies
the Moors, or Arabs
the Jews
the indigenous Andalusians
The first three were thrown together by the general persecution that followed the expulsion of the Moors in 1492. Flamenco was eventually created by the fusion of the cante gitano with Andalusian folk music.
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