Flamenco History (2)

Flamenco Guitar Method volume 2

The Jews. As mentioned before, the Jewish epoch began long before the Christian era. This allegation is substantiated by the fact that, in Christ’s day, Jewish pilgrims called sephardim came from Spain to Jerusalem. Sepharad (the biblical term) denoted ...

The Inquisition

When FERDINAND and ISABELLA, Kings of Castile, decided to clean Spain of minorities in an endeavour for racial purity and religious unity (Catholicism being the only religion), a sad process began, depriving Spain of some of the important representatives of its cultural, economic and ...

The Conquista

The Conquista (conquest) was the epoch in which Spain rose to world power because of its conquest of the New World and other countries. The famous conquistadores, CORTEZ and PIZARRO, conquered ...

The Gipsies

India is the presumed country of origin of the gipsies. However, to date, researchers have not been able to prove whether they came from the valleys of the Indus (more than three thousand kilometres long) or Rajasthan (a state bordering Pakistan) or the Hindukusch mountains. And it is not quite clear, either, why they left their ... (read more in: Flamenco Guitar Method by Gerhard Graf-Martinez, Vol 2, lesson 10)