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Victor Jaenada
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Among the criteria used to determine what makes flamenco what it is and where it comes from, there are considerations of a social, historical, territorial, biological, and ethnic nature. Its origins are mysterious, but its identity is clear. Although its branches extend in multiple, slightly different directions, the set of practices and expressions that inhabit this denomination follow a lineage and share an undeniable destiny. Its sameness is obvious, even as it is impossible to trace back. Flamenco, as a field of study, presents definitional difficulties—just as art does. Taxonomies, in any discipline, are applications of order to a mass that appears to be connected by certain points, which the system that arranges them turns into common characteristics, and therefore into ways of understanding the elements that make up its categories.
The family tree is…
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Victor Jaenada
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Among the criteria used to determine what makes flamenco what it is and where it comes from, there are considerations of a social, historical, territorial, biological, and ethnic nature. Its origins are mysterious, but its identity is clear. Although its branches extend in multiple, slightly different directions, the set of practices and expressions that inhabit this denomination follow a lineage and share an undeniable destiny. Its sameness is obvious, even as it is impossible to trace back. Flamenco, as a field of study, presents definitional difficulties—just as art does. Taxonomies, in any discipline, are applications of order to a mass that appears to be connected by certain points, which the system that arranges them turns into common characteristics, and therefore into ways of understanding the elements that make up its categories.
The family tree is…
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