COURSE SYLLABUS: Traditional Song & Spanish Society: Flamenco, Folklore & Sephardic Songs

Location: Granada, Spain

Partner Institution: University of Granada

Course Title (English): Traditional Song & Spanish Society: Flamenco, Folklore & Sephardic Songs

Course Title (Spanish): Canción tradicional y sociedad española: flamenco, folclor y canción sefardí

Sessions Offered: Fall Semester, Spring Semester

Instructional in: Spanish

Classroom Contact Hours: 45 contact hours

College Credit (Semester Credit Hours): 3 credit hours

College Credit (Quarter Units): 4 quarter units

Prerequisites: Intermediate II Spanish Level if taught in Spanish

Local Department: Language & Culture (CLCE)

Course Code: CLCE 338

Course Description

Through the study of a number of important songs, articles and documentary material and film, this course explores the importance of ancient song in our society. We will pay special attention to the poetry of the letters and we will give the student basic tools to approach this rich material and analyze the ties between song and society which is, at the same time, its origin and destiny.

Program Schedule

Unit 1: Cante jondo and flamenco

1. Its own vocabulary. Etymology
2. Birth and evolution: when, where, how. Social substrate.
3. Primitive oriental footprints: Orientalism and Andalusian music.
4. Basic notions on the history of flamenco.
5. Words from flamenco copulas.
6. Flamenco vs. folklore.
7. Poetry and song: cult poems sung in flamenco
8. Dance

Unit 2: Tradtional & Popular Song

2.1 Folklore. Introduction. Terminology.

2.2 Romances

2.3 Popular lyrics

2.4 Traditional and popular song and the  processes of the construction of collective identitities: the case of Spain

Unit 3: Sephardic Song

3.1 Sephard, the third diaspora: brief history of the Sephardic jews.

3.2 Language, literature and song.

Unit 4: 20th Century and the arrival of consumer music (song)

4.1 A radical change in the way of conceiving, producing, distributinnig and interpreting songs.

4.2 Music for the mases. The end of traditional music?

Activities

Activities are focused and aimed toward reinforcing the acquisition of the course content from a practical perspective.

Course Evaluation

Mandatory 80% class attendance.

Each student is responsible for turning in a final project based on creating a business. In this project the students should present, in a practical form, the theoretical content studied in class.

• The final grade is based on:
  Reading assignments, attendance and participation: 20%
• Final exam: 40%
• Final paper: 40%

Bibliography (Text and Materials)

• Borges, J.L. 1969: El otro, el mismo, Buenos Aires, Emecé
• Caballero, Bonald, J.M. 1988: Luces y sombras del flamenco, Sevilla, Algaida
• Fernñandez Bañuels, J.A. y Pérez Orozco, J.M. 1986: Joyero de coplas flamencas (Antología y estudio), Sevilla, Editoriales Andaluzas Unidas
• García Lorca, F. 1985: Poema del cante jondo y Romancero gitano, Madid, Cátedra
• 1989: “El cante jondo”, en Obras Completas, vol. III, Madrid, Aguilar
• 1989: “Arquitectura del cante jondo”, en Obras Completas, vol. III, Madrid, Aguilar
• Grande, F. 1992: “El Flamenco”, en Revista El Sol, Madrid, n. 86
• León, J.J. 2008: Compás de extranjería, Granada, Comares/La Vela
• 2011: Breve selección de coplas flamencas, Material de clase
• Randel, L. 2001: “El cante y el destino andaluz”, en Abril, n. 22, Luxemburgo
• VV.AA. 1992: Memoria de Sefarad, en el País-Temas de nuestra época, Madrid, n. 227
• VV.AA. 2011: Selección de cantes flamencos, Material de clase preparado por J.J. León
  

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