"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

So last night I said I would post about #CanteJondo.

As brilliant as some of the music is, I find that it doesn't have a great effect on me in a spiritual sense? It gets lodged in my brain as the most persistent of #Earworms to the exclusion of more important matters.

And so I'm loath to recommend it to others.

But if you're interested in the cultural history of #Spain, please do check it out, especially the history around the Cante Jondo festival in Granada in 1922.

Think I'm going to start a series of posts on #CanteJondo (#Flamenco) artists thanks to a new documentary I saw tonight. I need to go the heck to sleep, though. Tomorrow.