November 2009
Dr.
Bruce Boggs
"My academic interests of late revolve around two book projects. One, a co-edited volume in Spanish, “En una misma lira”: Estudios músico-literarios españoles, will collect studies by international scholars and essays by contemporary Spanish writers on the intersections between literature and music. My second project, Writing Flamenco: Imagining Spain’s Traditional Music Through Literature, explores the ways in which Spanish writers have mediated the construction of Andalusian music, flamenco, and cante hondo as markers of national identity. Of the popular regional song and dance traditions that emerged in Spain in the modern period, none has been more determined by intellectuals as has flamenco, a broad category of orally transmitted song styles associated with Andalusia, with the lower classes, with the Spanish Gypsies, with popular tradition, and with the urban masses. The commodification of Andalusian popular cultural models, majismo (the vogue for an urban, marginalized, Gypsy-esque, underclass style of speech, attitude, dress, and music), Gypsyphilia, the beginnings of folklore studies, and the influence of Arab Culture studies in Spain are tendencies that have informed the flamenco complex of imagery, evident in the literary record, that is the subject of my book."
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