[Francisco Vega]

Duende, a journey into the heart of Flamenco.
Author: Jason Webster - ISBN 0-7679-1166-0
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Has anyone here read this book?
Michelob, I just finished reading it in two days, and kept you in my mind while reading it. I am sure you will enjoy it. You will understand a lot more they gypsie culture, and the real duende.
I think that anyone who plays flamenco or believes plays flamenco should read this book, a true lesson.

[Michelob]

Originally Posted by Francisco Vega

Duende, a journey into the heart of Flamenco.
Author: Jason Webster - ISBN 0-7679-1166-0
-----------------------------------------------------
Has anyone here read this book?
Michelob, I just finished reading it in two days, and kept you in my mind while reading it. I am sure you will enjoy it. You will understand a lot more they gypsie culture, and the real duende.
I think that anyone who plays flamenco or believes plays flamenco should read this book, a true lesson.

'honored to be in your thoughts. Such earnest advice, how could i not get a copy? Seriously, i appreciate your suggestion, francisco.

[Todd]

Great book.

[Great Googly Moogly]

Todd,

Dude, that is an amazing, yet perplexing quote! What is meant by it? "Tone" and "context" are difficult things to discern on here.

[Todd]

Originally Posted by Locust777

Todd,

Dude, that is an amazing, yet perplexing quote! What is meant by it? "Tone" and "context" are difficult things to discern on here.

Just being silly.

[NFalla]

Nice book and i love reading almost anything i can get my hands on about anything................BUT honestly nothing compares to the "Real Thing"............if ya get my drift peeps.

i personally find all these books on flamenco a little lacking and "Over Romancing" what really "IS"........

But a entertaining read none the less..........

[Great Googly Moogly]

Originally Posted by Todd

Just being silly.

That is funny! LOL

[tanolonco]

i found webster's book to be ok but nothing i would recommend. it seemed to me he was trying to hard to impress the reader and the book came across to me as a cliche. i was not that impressed with the book.

i think a great book about flamenco is dorien ross' book, "returning to a". dorien, by the way is a female which adds an interesting twist in that she went to spain to learn from diego del castor. pohren's book, "a way of life", is another great book.

personally i get a little tired of the word, duende, being bantered about--especially by people who know the word but have not lived the word or experienced something otherworldly. it reminds me of shamanic drumming which basically involves a bunch of middle age people who have no idea what shamanism really is (other than reading a book) banging on a drum with no sense of rhythm and sounding like a second rate cowboy and indian movie when the indians are preparing for war.

[NFalla]

Originally Posted by tanolonco

i found webster's book to be ok but nothing i would recommend. it seemed to me he was trying to hard to impress the reader and the book came across to me as a cliche. i was not that impressed with the book.

That's pretty much how i feel about any book/artical written about flamenco............

They are "entertaining" though.............but far from anything true............in the deepest sense........they all seem to be Far to Romanticized.........at least for me.

[Francisco Vega]

An advise for those commenting about the book without reading it: Read it.
This is a fictional book that could have been happening in reality,as the author states. However, my point about critizing it is not from the duende. We learned a lot about the people he associated with.
I personally have a critique and desagree with the morality of the author and some of the decisions he made. However, the picture he presented on the life of the modern Spain is pathetic and real.
BTW, there is nothing romaticized in that book