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Soleá: The Pinnacle of Flamenco Singing
Dr. Ricardo Morgado Giraldo

Abstract
In this paper we make a study of the currents that influence the development of flamenco art, using as a unit of analysis a variety of “palo”2 called soleá, specifically the one located in an area of the Triana neighbourhood in Seville: more precisely, a variety of this “palo” called soleá del Zurraque. From this study, we advance in our understanding of flamenco and proceed to describe phenomena such as creative synergies, syncretism or the synthesis of different cultures. Finally, we end by emphasizing that flamenco is a music and a dance in full development, which strongly resists the waves of commercialized music that globalization brings with it. All this study we carry out with the tools of social anthropology and ethnomusicology, which analyse the cultural features, not isolated from each other, but putting them in relation with the culture that generates them -which is defined in this case as a set of features in interaction- to perceive most of its meaning.

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