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'Malagueñas, creators and styles' is the work title co-edited by Editum, the Publications Service of the University of Murcia, together with editorial UMA, of the University of Malaga.

The publication is presented this Thursday, in the boardroom of the Rectorate of the University of Malaga, at 7 pm and will feature the interventions of Francisco Javier Martínez, Vice-Rector for Quality, Culture and Communication of the UMU;

Juan Teodomiro López, Vice Chancellor for Research and Transfer of the UMA;

Rosario Moreno-Torres, editorial UMA;

and the authors of the work.

The book 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 Malaga, its musical characteristics, lyrics and 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 the cases, followed by death (16%), the 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 possesses 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