Flamenco

Flamenco (Spanish pronunciation: [flaˈmeŋko]) is an artform native to the Spanish regions of Andalusia, Extremadura and Murcia. It includes cante (singing), toque (guitar playing), baile (dance) and jaleo (vocalizations and palmas (handclapping) and pitos (finger snapping)).

First mentioned in literature in 1774, the genre originates in Andalusian music and dance styles. Flamenco is strongly associated with the gitanos (Romani people of Spain) - however, unlike Romani music of eastern Europe, the style is distinctively Andalusian and the fusion of the various cultures of southern Spain is clearly perceptible in Flamenco music. Although there are many theories on its influences and origins, the most widespread highlights a Morisco heritage, the cultural melting pot that was Andalusia at the time (Andalusians, Moors, Castilian settlers, Romanis and Jews) fostering its development over time. Flamenco music, as a theatrical representation of Andalusian musical tradition, was first recorded in the late 18th century but the genre underwent a dramatic development in the late 19th century.

Flamenco (1995 film)

Flamenco is a 1995 Spanish documentary film directed by Carlos Saura with camerawork by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. The film is entirely musical and dancing vignettes, composed and photographed on a sound stage.

Synopsis

Flamenco is a documentary that includes performances from some of the best flamenco singers, dancers and guitarists. Helped by cinematography by Vittorio Storaro, director Carlos Saura brings with this film the "Light of Flamenco to the World".

As a hall fills with performers, a narrator says that flamenco came from Andalucia, a mix of Greek psalms, Mozarabic dirges, Castillian ballads, Jewish laments, Gregorian chants, African rhythms, and Iranian and Romany melodies. The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba. Families present numbers, both festive and fierce. The camera and the other performers are the only audience.

Flamenco (disambiguation)

Flamenco is a variety of accompanied dance native to Spain.

See Flamenco guitar for the musical instrument and style.

Flamenco may also refer to:

Films

Other uses

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Kumari Kanchan Dinkerao Mail

Kumari Kanchan Dinkerao Mail (March 16, 1950 – July 26, 2004) was an Indian singer best known as part of the husband-wife group Babla & Kanchan.

Some of her popular songs are:

Kanchan means "gold" in Hindi.
Kanchan (e.g. Yashodhara B. Kanchan) is also a surname mostly used in the southern part (Mangalore) of India by fisher-folks.

Kanchan (actress)

Kanchan is a former Indian film actress. She has appeared in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Bollywood films, primarily in the 1990s.

Career

Kanchan acted in several films, including the Salman Khan super hit, Sanam Bewafa (1991). She was then seen in Ajith Kumar's debut film Prema Pustagam and worked alongside Mohanlal in Gandharvam. Her appearance in many Hindi films did not help her career much.

Hit films

Kanchan's hit movies are Sanam Bewafa and Gandharvam. She co-starred with Akshay Kumar in Amaanat. She also starred in Coolie No.1 opposite Govinda, Karisma Kapoor and Harish Kumar.

Filmography

Turkish

Turkish usually refers to something related to Turkey, a country in Eurasia.

It may refer specifically to:

Historical Turkish empires

People

Language

Other

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Turkish language

Turkish ( Türkçe ), also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 10–15 million native speakers in Southeast Europe (mostly in East Thrace) and 60-65 million native speakers in Western Asia (mostly in Anatolia). Outside of Turkey, smaller groups of speakers exist in Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus (although a partially recognized state), Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia.

To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin script.

The distinctive characteristics of Turkish are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. The basic word order of Turkish is subject–object–verb. Turkish has no noun classes or grammatical gender. Turkish has a strong T–V distinction and usage of honorifics. Turkish uses second-person pronouns that distinguish varying levels of politeness, social distance, age, courtesy or familiarity toward the addressee. The plural second-person pronoun and verb forms are used referring to a single person out of respect.