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Cultura 1- El Flamenco

1. What is El Flamenco? ________________________________________________________

2. Where does El Flamenco come from? Which country? Which province in that country?

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3. Label the country shown below. Label and color in the province from which Flamenco originated.

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Direcciones: Completa las notas sobre el flamenco en frases completas.

4. Which two groups of people were mainly responsible for developing El Flamenco?

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5. What was the main reason that they came together to create this art form?

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6. Which three artistic elements are included in the Flamenco?

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7. According to the author, what is the “center” of Flamenco?

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8. How can we classify Flamenco?

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9. What is “palmas?”

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10. What feelings were the first Flamenco performers expressing? Why do you think they did this through song and dance?

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11. What music is the style of Flamenco’s guitar and singing based on? The dance?

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12. The author uses the term “Arab World.” What does that mean? List some examples.

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13. What is cultural diffusion?

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14. How did cultural diffusion help to create El Flamenco?

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15. Why were Spanish Gypsies called “flamencos?”

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