A Queer History of Flamenco – Diversions, Transitions, and Returns in Flamenco …

A Queer History of FlamencoDiversions, Transitions, and Returns in Flamenco Dance (18082018)\nAuthor(s): Fernando Lpez Rodrguez, Ryan Rockmore\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472077120, 978-0472077120\nSynopsis\nA Queer History of Flamenco offers a groundbreaking exploration of flamenco through the lenses of queer theory and cultural studies. Previous histories have provided a largely distorted image about why, where, and how people have done flamencoas well as who has performed flamenco. Yet feminists, transvestites, butches, femmes, the Spanish Roma, disabled people, guiris, and incomprehensible artists have been determined to do things differently without giving up their flamenco status. In this skillful translation of his book Historia queer del flamenco, Fernando Lpez Rodrguez draws on diverse archival materials as well as his own lived experience and artistic practice, unearth.