Collection of flamenco singing

Antonio Macahado Alvarez, ''Demófilo'' (Santiago de Compostela, 1848-Sevilla, 1893), writer, anthropologist and spanish folklorist of the 68 Generation. Son of Antonio Machado Nuñez, well-known politician and andalusian scientist, and father of the poets Antonio and Manuel Machado, he was without a doubt one of the main intellectuals of the second half of the XIX century in Andalusia and the most brilliant exponent of the scientific study of the flamenco. His collection of flamenco singing printed for the first time in Sevilla in 1881, edition that we gather here, would suppose an milestone in the history of the study of this song, being the first approximation rigorously anthropologist of the matter. The second edition, printed in 1887 with the title of ‘’Flamenco singing’’ and also published in facsimile format by Extramuros Edition, it will be an approach less technique and more popular to this work strictly flamenco, to the first anthropology of this poetic expression,

The work is about the origin of the different songs, compiling the lyrics of soleares of three or four verses, gypsies seguiriyas, polos, cañas, martinetes, tonás, livianas, deblas and peteneras.

''Demófilo'' was acted as consultant during its working out, its well-known work, to the best-nknown singers Juanelo de Jerez and Franconetti; to this last one we would add to this edition a biography and a compilation of songs, just as a list of flamenco singers through Andalusian localities. The Machado work was and continue to be the basis on which important part of the bibliography linked to flamenco is constructed and one of the indispensable sources to study and enjoy this art.
 
Technical data of the facsimile
Collection: Flamenco and andalusian folfklore.
ISBN: 978-84-9862-101-3
Code: E04-00370
Format: 120 X 165
Pages: 238 (b/n)

Original work
Printer: Printing and lithography of  El Porvenir.
Place of printing: Sevilla
Year of edition: 1881
Language: Spanish