Flamenco och muntlig tradering

Abstract

Modern flamenco music was born as an oral tradition. As it moved into the 20th century recorded audio and audiovisual representation became important carriers of the musical information and changed the way flamenco could be experienced, spread, learned and taught. This study exemplifies, through a closer look at the flamenco guitar, how musical components in flamenco relate to patterns typical to music of oral tradition. These patterns are specified as musical formulas. Further it relates the formulas to phenomena that can be addressed as different types of writing systems (as opposed to the systems of orally transmitted information), as the recorded audio, formal musical training, euroclassical harmony etc. In conclusion, the study defines flamenco music as an oral tradition within a society grounded in the written word and finds that the oral formula essentially develops in relation to it.