The Old Roots Of Flamenco

AMAZING OLD FOOTAGE OF SACROMONTE 1960s
MUSIC BY José Fermín Fernández

[@pilargonzalez8442]

Impressive to watch the little ones dance!!!!

[@enserio2528]

El flamenco, la voz del pobre, el cante de la mina, el grito de la injusticia y el suspiro del amor. Olé!!!!

[@rmaxi_]

Olé

[@miguelleiton3645]

Yo veo una extrema pobreza y un Arte innato que se trae en la sangre y una lucha para que sea reconocido y valorado en el futuro... Un arte unico tanto en la expresion del cuerpo, el cante y una guitarra que despliega todo el ritmo.... Mi mas grande respeto........

[@SimonCamara]

De verdad son únicos

[@louiseparker1915]

We've lost something in our modern culture.

[@jeanclaudemichaud3535]

Témoignage d'un temps révolu, mais oh! Combien révélateur d'un esprit joyeux spontané et mélancolique à la fois chef d'œuvre d'une mémoire

[@jamescohen]

What I wouldnt give to hear the original music behind these spectacular dancers. I bet it would blow us away,

[@SimonCamara]

Yes you are correct In some places in Sacromonte Granada you can still find the original Flamenco not the tourist stuff.💪🏻

[@jamescohen]

@@SimonCamara I hope to go someday. Similar to La Niña de la Piennes? That sort of Flamenco?

[@SimonCamara]

@@jamescohenyes 👍 correct

[@luisantoniomartinez8080]

Ese paisaje me recuerda mucho a la muy amplia periferia de Lima Perú, vivir en cerros, de forma precaria y sin servicios.

[@user-pf2ze8oz8l]

Con qué poco eramos "Felices".😢

[@SimonCamara]

Si es verdad

[@marcelarodriguez8198]

Imposible no emocionarse ante este desfile de emociones que se conjugan para mostrar su ánimo y cultura gitana, flamenca. Errantes y nómades, su única patria es este bien intangible de su cultura que generosamente exhiben y se hacen uno con las penas que cargamos los payos. Hay una pobreza digna y salerosa, desde esa escuela en casa cueva entre ellos se enseñan con cada gesto a exorcizan al Destino....

[@Bob-tk3sf]

Yo a los gitanos les daría una patada en el culo

[@buhodespierto24-365]

Divino!!!! Maravilla de baile❤❤❤ arte, energia, fuerza, la fuerza del alma!!!❤❤

[@haruoandalucia8443]

Beautiful ! Beating time with their hands and cutting bread is typical Spanish. Every shots of this video are making me to remember my life there in old days. I am crying.

[@OlDirtyMatress]

These are things my mother told me about. I got fucking chills. ❤

[@zalomarino]

Granada cuando era un pueblo, e incluso en aquélla época, muchos gitanos vivían dentro de la Alhambra. Qué maravilla!

[@SimonCamara]

Si es verdad

[@martamaia8957]

Abbiamo conosciutto l'interno dell'Andaluzia durante gli anni '70 quando Spagna rimaneva ancora chiusa e ci siamo trovati, per la prima volta, in un favoloso festival de Flamenco a Moguer....che cos'è stato!!!! Che scoperta, ch'incanto, che favola...d'allora, tutti gli anni, mentre mio marito era vivo, passavamo in giro, dietro alle carovane di zingari e là, abbiamo avuto un contatto direto com Camarón de la Isla, Tomatito, Los Biencasaos e um piú puro cante jondo....😪

[@martamaia8957]

Splendido, meraviglioso documentario!!!!

[@nct948]

impressive old recording of a past way of life. We can only imagine what the real sound would be like, quite different from the one selected to accompany the film , which doesn't really fit. How the children dance! everybody joins in. Flamenco grips you like a fever.

[@eddiepacer]

Oh my god! I enjoyed every second of this video! It's a masterpiece. So much love to Spain from Morocco 🇲🇦🇪🇸❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@luissantiagofernandez2438]

Ole el arte del gitano

[@luissantiagofernandez2438]

El arte digital pon el

[@rebeccatrevino9296]

Wonder what became of that boy? Would be nice to see an interview of him as an older man.

[@DeadHandX]

Those are the masters of the flamenco universe.MAGNIFIQUE!

[@Mspelche]

Ay dios mio que bonito!

[@asmamohamed9279]

عرض رائع وفي غاية الروعة والجمال شكر ✌️

[@SimonCamara]

Thank you for watching 🥰

[@mariadelcielo]

Este documento es una joya de colección. La creatividad tan espontanea como sanguínea de los niños, esa pasión ya aflora en el patio. MARAVILLOSO. GRACIAS, GRACIAS. Abrazo desde Argentina.

[@SimonCamara]

Estoy de acuerdo contigo

[@SimonCamara]

Muchas gracias por ver el vídeo xoxo

[@m.teresaserrano2447]

El blanco y negro hace de la pobreza algo romántico

[@SimonCamara]

Si de verdad que si 🙏

[@ambindia]

Beautiful music

[@RicardoMottagu1tarra]

Que documental tan maravilloso.... Me emociona, siento que está melodía me da vida ...

[@SimonCamara]

Gracias 🙏

[@ianfhancock1541]

The anger from the centuries-old terrible treatment of Romanies in Spain is expressed in the dance. The pain is expressed in the cante jondo.

[@SimonCamara]

Well said

[@joseaguero642]

Interesante y entrañable documento

[@SimonCamara]

Gracias Jose

[@sebastiao5150]

Fantástico! Santos, Brasil.

[@user-tp3kp1ec6e]

Bonita cultura gitana.Bello flamenco gitano 💃💃💃👏👏👏👏

[@SimonCamara]

Gracias 😻

[@katiek.8943]

Thank you Romani in Spain!

[@kiko7939]

Yes , thank you for influencing something that already existed in Andalusia

[@Active-Vision]

​@@kiko7939 music is more like fire, who can say its andalucian or romanies, it belongs to all, God bless

[@iseytheteethsnake6290]

@@kiko7939 since 1500’s

[@rebecaregalado4223]

@@Active-Vision just make sure to give credit. this is GYPSY music, not Spanish

[@Active-Vision]

@@rebecaregalado4223 sure do, i can feel it too im part of rom "gypsy" as well, much love and Gods blessings

[@enserio2528]

Os recomiendo que escuchéis El Cabrero.

[@mariafernandaquinteroalzat1240]

Gracias 😌 por este documental

[@SimonCamara]

Es un Placer

[@sathurxy49]

Simon, I have watched countless documentaries from academics and 'those who know best'. I've read books, I play Flamenco but this is the greatest Flamenco documentary ever.

[@SimonCamara]

Ohh thank you so much 😊

[@SimonCamara]

If you are down this way send me a DM

[@sathurxy49]

@@SimonCamara Hopefully, I might manage to return to el -Andalus.

[@sathurxy49]

@@SimonCamara Me playing a Guajiras, which is not strictly Flamenco but it operates in the 12/8. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3yYq4Kmd9yii5Y

[@sathurxy49]

@@SimonCamara kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zp25lp15nZuap6s

[@JuanilloBushman]

❤❤❤

[@antoniogimenezgabarri7776]

oleeeee....sinela lacho prhalico el video... calos 100×100

[@pepeluis6923]

Parece que esté grabado a finales del sigo XIX pero es en los años 60. Como ha cambiado España.

[@SimonCamara]

Si parece tienes razón

[@pepeluis6923]

@@SimonCamara Excelente documento gráfico, de una excepcional valía para la humanidad. Y no exagero. Son de esas cosas que surgen del pasado como si fueran algo místico. Tan real y tan irreal al mismo tiempo. Gracias por compartirlo.

[@simonejustus8676]

Fiquei emocionada!

[@Handlebarnpc]

Love it

[@ZiggyLu-og3zp]

That was very cool to see!

[@TNToncourt]

Bless him!

[@marijenkins2674]

Wow

[@iampathak6788]

my goodness ..

[@ajsuli8048]

San Pedro de Alcántara

[@ajsuli8048]

La Marote

[@panyagua4470]

Music Credit?

[@asiramm2635]

Music by José fermín Fernández

[@juandianas7628]

Puedes pone roots, pero no llevaba ya entonces años inventado el flamenco ni nada.... Esas imágenes son como muy pronto los 50s.

[@matahari8673]

Like arabic sound

[@moneyslaves1945]

NO SE PERO HAY ALGO ARABE EN EL FLAMENCO

[@SimonCamara]

Correcto the Raices son Árabe mas bien algo Berber

[@reillymom2boys]

Caught your channel and this is anything but boring Mr. Brit. Most amazing insight into a lost culture

[@SimonCamara]

Cheers so much

[@jardindelashesperides]

This is an old film based on the poverty of the gypsies on one hand and the totally untrained but totally improvising young child dancer full of enthusiasm and energy. He lucks the training or the opportunity to watch a flamenco dance of that time. He claps an also used them in a gestures of pulling down and up his trousers (nothing flamenco here with perhaps the small hint of clapping) and acrobatic movements that can be linked to many other dances but almost none of the movements can be related to the Flamenco of the XX century. Now this lad adepts and develops some Flamenco techniques when he is dressed with a Matador black trousers and clearly shows that he has learnt and picked up some flamenco movements, gestures and tapping . The older dancing man seems to be kicking someone on the back while dancing totally unco-ordinated and lucking any flamenco rhythms. Now compare this dancing with Canarios or !Il Canario" that was danced 4 centuries earlier in the whole of Europe and you can see the English Dancers dancing Flamenco or il Canario as it was called. Observe the male dancer in the middle how he use the palm clapping and tapping as well as the ladies. Of course, Canarios was a very successful Court Dance from the Canary Islands that becomes a highly skilful which started in the XV century and died at the beginning of the XIX century. Instead of dying, I would say was renamed as Flameco. In this link you can see an English version with clapping and tapping. Of course, Flamenco as it is now has developed with all the fusions and the input from the gypsies when they start embracing and taking as its own dance but it did not came from their ancestral home in Punjab, India where they dance without any shoes and certainly no tapping or any root of Flamenco. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKnGaICirrqprNE

[@SimonCamara]

Very interesting thank you for your message

[@NedBoukharine]

That how the poor of Spain lived, not just the Gypsies.

[@SimonCamara]

@@NedBoukharine exactly my friend

[@eprd313]

This is the original flamenco. It can't get purer than this

[@edmundooliver7584]

no, the english ate not dancing flamenco.

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

The woman in the thumbnail looks like a character from 'Popeye'.

[@SimonCamara]

😂😂 yes i suppose she does

[@artymowski]

Sorry, but the new style does not match the old movie. Maybe you should have had an old Buleria instead?