![]() ![]() ![]() It hadn’t given in to flamenco’s popularizing drive, preserving, instead, a fusion of Iberian cultures: Indian, Jewish, Byzantine, Islamic. But for Lorca, the old style of sung poetry, which, like much else in southern Spain, has strong associations with the Romani people, followed a different beat, historically and acoustically. Typical of Spain’s southern Andalusia region, cante jondo sounds, to the untrained ear, identical to flamenco. The taverns, like the Residencia, housed brilliant artists, but few in Spain knew their names, much less the mesmerizing style of music they played, called cante jondo (“deep song”). By night, they frequented the taverns inside the walls of the city’s 9 th-century Alhambra fortress. That is, until Lorca and his friends created it. ![]()
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