Sunday, September 13, 2020

Podcast: The surprising Spanish connection: Black Music in Europe (The 1970s)


Clarke Peters uncovers...Black flamenco in Spain, talking to Raul Rodriguez and Black-British flamenco dancer Yinka Esi Graves about how Seville's Triana area, where 15% of the population were once Black and why the dictator Franco used flamenco as a false national symbol.  


Listen here (for the first 6 minutes.)



(Photo: Clark Peters. Credit:: Alexandra Quinn)



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