Antonia Mercé, "LaArgentina". Ninotchka Bennahum

on>

      

ANTONIA MERCÉ, “LA ARGENTINA”

      ANTONIA MERCÉ

      Argentina posing in Paris for photographer Madame d’Ora, 1928.

      “LA ARGENTINA”

       Flamenco and the Spanish Avant Garde

      Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum

      Wesleyan University Press

      PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND HANOVER AND LONDON

      Wesleyan University Press

      Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755

      © 2000 by Ninotchka Bennahum

      All rights reserved

      5 4 3 2 1

      CIP data appear at the end of the book

      The publisher and author gratefully acknowledge the support of the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Education and Culture and the United States’ Universities in the publication of this book, and thank the Spanish Ministry of Culture for the iconographic material used in the color section.

      “Argentina” in Tango Andalou.

For my mother and father, sister and brother, and in memory of my uncle Michael Bennahumand of all four of my extraordinary grandparents, Midge Bennahum, Theodore Bennahum, Mary Berry Chazin, and Maurice Chazin

      CONTENTS

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
A Note on Sources	xv
1. Argentina and Spanish Modernism	1
2. The Formative Years (1888–1912)	25
3. Giving Grace a Body: From the Music Hall to the Concert Stage (1912–1923)	45
4. The Modernism of El amor brujo	76
5. A Feminist Folklore: Argentina and the Women of Spain (1910–1936)	103
6. Nationalism and Cubism: El fandango del candil and Triana	128
7. An Unwritten Legacy	163
Chronology	183
Glossary	197
Notes	201
Bibliography	227
Index	239

      ILLUSTRATIONS

---

Скачать книгу

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• >
• В конец

Frontispiece: Argentina posing in Paris for photographer Madame d’Ora, 1928	ii
A young Argentina posing in Spanish dress, 1920s, Paris	2
Argentina and Les Ballets Espagnols in Scene 1 from Triana, 1929	5
Argentina in a solo performance of La Corrida, 1936	6
Scene 1 from the ballet Juerga, 1929	7
Argentina on tour in Holland, 1935, press conference	9
Argentina in a solo performance of Tango Andalou, 1935	10
Argentina at a dance festival in Manila	11
Argentina on her third world tour to Asia, 1930	13
Argentina visiting the sphinx in Egypt, 1934	14
Argentina in the Excelsior Restaurant with the Spanish literary vanguard, 1928	21
In costume for Tango Andalou, Madrid, 1931	22
Caricature of Argentina in La Gitane	23
The boarding house where Argentina was born	26
Argentina posing in costume for Suite Andaluza, 1935	27
Argentina with the castanet maestra Orfilia Rico, 1915