Antonia Mercé, "LaArgentina" - Ninotchka Bennahum

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ANTONIA MERCÉ, “LA ARGENTINA”

      ANTONIA MERCÉ

      Argentina posing in Paris for photographer Madame d’Ora, 1928.

      “LA ARGENTINA”

       Flamenco and the Spanish Avant Garde

      Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum

      Wesleyan University Press

      PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND HANOVER AND LONDON

      Wesleyan University Press

      Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755

      © 2000 by Ninotchka Bennahum

      All rights reserved

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      CIP data appear at the end of the book

      The publisher and author gratefully acknowledge the support of the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Education and Culture and the United States’ Universities in the publication of this book, and thank the Spanish Ministry of Culture for the iconographic material used in the color section.

      “Argentina” in Tango Andalou.

For my mother and father, sister and brother, and in memory of my uncle Michael Bennahumand of all four of my extraordinary grandparents, Midge Bennahum, Theodore Bennahum, Mary Berry Chazin, and Maurice Chazin

      CONTENTS

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
A Note on Sources xv
1. Argentina and Spanish Modernism 1
2. The Formative Years (1888–1912) 25
3. Giving Grace a Body: From the Music Hall to the Concert Stage (1912–1923) 45
4. The Modernism of El amor brujo 76
5. A Feminist Folklore: Argentina and the Women of Spain (1910–1936) 103
6. Nationalism and Cubism: El fandango del candil and Triana 128
7. An Unwritten Legacy 163
Chronology 183
Glossary 197
Notes 201
Bibliography 227
Index 239

      ILLUSTRATIONS

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Frontispiece: Argentina posing in Paris for photographer Madame d’Ora, 1928 ii
A young Argentina posing in Spanish dress, 1920s, Paris 2
Argentina and Les Ballets Espagnols in Scene 1 from Triana, 1929 5
Argentina in a solo performance of La Corrida, 1936 6
Scene 1 from the ballet Juerga, 1929 7
Argentina on tour in Holland, 1935, press conference 9
Argentina in a solo performance of Tango Andalou, 1935 10
Argentina at a dance festival in Manila 11
Argentina on her third world tour to Asia, 1930 13
Argentina visiting the sphinx in Egypt, 1934 14
Argentina in the Excelsior Restaurant with the Spanish literary vanguard, 1928 21
In costume for Tango Andalou, Madrid, 1931 22
Caricature of Argentina in La Gitane 23
The boarding house where Argentina was born 26
Argentina posing in costume for Suite Andaluza, 1935 27
Argentina with the castanet maestra Orfilia Rico, 1915