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The play, "Malagueñas, cantes y styles", will be presented on August 8 at La Unión coinciding with the 59th edition of the International Festival of Cante de las Minas.

"Malagueñas, cantes y styles" is the title of work that has just been published by Editum, the Publications Service of the University of Murcia, together with an editorial UMA, of the University of Malaga.

The publication will be presented on August 8, at 7:30 p.m., at the Casa del Piñón de La Unión, and will be in charge of José Francisco Ortega and Rafael Ruiz (authors), who will be accompanied by Francisco Antonio Gil Pujante (Technical Director of Editum)

In the second part, Pedro López Milan, mayor of La Unión and José Luján Alcaraz, Rector of the University of Murcia, will be involved, with the finalization of the event being planned with a performance by the Pasión del Sur duo.

The work is written by José Francisco Ortega Castejón, Luis Soler Guevara, Rafael Ruiz García and Antonio Gómez Alarcón, and tries to compile the different styles of what constitutes one of the most prolific flamenco cante varieties, whose origins date back a long time, As evidenced by the inclusion of one of the first references to Malaga, which appears in a 1779 tonadilla:

"That the malagueña

I pretend to sing

in case your grief

I can relieve you. "

The authors, in love with this art, have applied in recent years to locate, listen, classify, transcribe, analyze and comment on the different styles of songs by Malaga.

The result is a monumental work that collects in its 700 pages numerous Malaga's most significant singers, with whom the authors hope to contribute "a grain of sand that helps to better understand this difficult, exciting and, oddly enough, still unknown world of flamenco ".

The book focuses in its first part on the origins and evolution of the malagueña, its musical characteristics, the lyrics and the styles, to then enter the vital journey and the songs of numerous singers and singers from Malaga.

Of the 126 letters collected and analyzed in the book, the authors make a thematic classification in which it is concluded that love is the most recurring theme, with 45 percent of cases, followed by death (16%), localist themes that allude to terroir (12%) and drama or suffering (9%).

The book has contributions as important as Malaga's in the press, which includes four extensive and documented texts on this artistic manifestation published by different newspapers between 1884 and 1906.

The authors affirm that the malagueña has a "hypnotic lyricism", and they refer to Gras and Elías to define it as "the melody of the soul; it is the woe! It springs from the deepest part of the heart, the most harmonious string of feeling".

And the book, with its abundant documentation, invites knowledge of this song, one of the reference sticks in the field of flamenco.

Source: Universidad de Murcia