Spanish Flamenco Music Culture
The Spanish music culture is spoken heavily through its fiery and emotive musical genre. Flamenco has been the root of Spanish music, being around since the beginning of history and traditions. Flamenco is a form of song, dance, and instrumental music that is associated with the Andalusian region of Spain. The first founders of Flamenco were migrants, coming to Spain from Rajasthan (northwest India), with musical instruments such as tambourines, bells, and wooden castanets. Castanets are percussion instruments that are usually made of hardwood, ivory, or other substances hinged together by a cord of some sort. Castanets are also idiophones, and are played in different pitches by dancers. Flamenco is also known as cante, or song. Flamenco songs fall into three categories of whether the song is profound, intermediate, or light. It is also characterized by emotion and deals with the themes of death, anguish, despair, or religious doubt. The historical roots of Flamenco comes from the...