"Arqueología de lo jondo" by Antonio Manuel goes into the culture of #Flamenco names. and if you know anything about flamenco you know that most artists go by a sobriquet or handle.

Manuel goes into the #Arabic / #Andalus roots of the naming, a less compelling argument because I don't see most of the elements of Arabic naming in flamenco sobriquets.

However I do see a pattern of naming people by tribal or clan names. "Heredia" is a really common name around here for flamenco artists. I don't know if it's a big family, I don't know if all the Heredias actually belong to that family by blood, and it's not all that important.

And of course "Camarón de la Isla" was not the name that the #Cantaor was baptized with. He was small in stature, so "Camarón" for "Shrimp," then "de la Isla" for the little island off the coast of the city of #Cadiz, where he was born.

#Andalucia #Spain #CanteJondo

Looks like an old blog post of mine was picked up by Stanford's 'Arcade': "Popular Andalusi literature and the Arthurian tradition in the Iberian Peninsula" https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/interventions/popular-andalusi-literature-and-arthurian-tradition-iberian-peninsula #andalus #medievodon #medievaliberia #arthuriana