La Mesa del Contento (sic)

ABSTRACT: Granada Doaba is a story about neighbors, immigration + confluence. Our music is a human process of borrowing, sharing and transformation. My writing is a work in progress -- an attempt to shed light [and historical context] on a improvised piece of art we created in the dark.

Chapter 1 : "Flamencología"
false dichotomies in spanish dance music

1. Folk vs. Classical
   
2. Vertical Borrowing
   
3. Party Music [part 1]
   
4. Indigenous Spanish guitar
   
5. meta-Historical Musicology
6. Gypsies + Class

Chapter 2 : "Bohemia Al-Andalus" war brings us together too

1. Military expansion & interpenetration
   
2. Ottoman Zurna vs. European Clarinet
   
3. Turkish Orientalism in Euro Art Music
4. Convivencia: living with friction
   
5. Gypsies + Religion

Chapter 3 : "La Senda del Abuelo"
connecting the margins like pacman

1. 1492 (re)Conquista
2. Horizontal borrowing
3. Diversity of outcasts
   
4. Party Music [part 2]
5. Gypsies + Arabs

Chapter 4 : "Nunca Fui a Granada"
cuz you don't know what you got til its gone

1. Federico Garcia Lorca + the Spanish Civil War
   
2. Exile and Nostalgia
   
3. Colonial Oppression + Percussive Transgression
4. New Spain: La Movida [part 1]
   
5. Gypsies as Symbols

Chapter 5 : "No Te Rebeles"
suffering, and smiling

1. Flamenco: Birth and Evolution
   
2. Misery Sublime
   
3. Authenticity and Race
4. Gypsies and/or Andalusia

Chapter 6 : "Qanun Al-Tarab"
pan-Arab music

1. Islam and Music
2. Al-Andalus: Arabs (?) in Spain
   
3. Structured improvisation
   
4. Party Music [part 2]
5. Dancers & Luthiers

Chapter 7 : "Menudo Jaleo"
hip is the knowledge, hop is the movement

1. Digital Borrowing
2. Participatory Culture
3. Party Music [part 3]
4. Memory and Forgetting
5. Musical Environmentalism
   
6. The Internet [part 1]

Chapter 8 : "El Manisero de Potemkin"
is that song mine?

1. Colonial Imagination
   
2. Music in the Marketplace
3. Copyright vs Creative Commons
   
4. Africa [via Latin America]

Chapter 9 : "Calabazar de Sagua"
and the walls came down

1. New Spain [part 2]
   
2. Immigration: Ida y vuelta
   
3. Fusion: Cuban Flamenco
4. Party Music [part 4]

Chapter 10 : "Yerbaguena"
standing on the shoulders of giants

1. New Spain: Internacional [part 2]
2. Fusion: Arab Flamenco
   
3. Fusion: Jazz Flamenco
   
4. The Internet [part 2]
5. New Spain [part 3]
   

Chapter 11 : "La Lengua del Río"
mi manera de sentir ...

1. Habichuela family
   
2. Cultural Inheritances
   
3. Genius

Chapter 12 : "Perro Cruzado"
one two three four ...

1. Globalization & African-American music
   
2. Other Spanish music
   

Chapter 13 : "Juxtapotente"
the old and the new

1. Gypsies from India
   
2. Cultural Inheritances
   
3. Dance Music [part 5]

Chapter 14 : "El Arte de Escuchar"
keep your ears open and eyes moving

1. Learning to listen
2. Teachers and Students