The development of racism in the Spanish Roma population relatedto the late implementation of flamenco in Andalusian education

Abstract

A review of the social position of flamenco is made from its most illustrious representatives and promoters: the Spanish gypsy population. A political and educational analysis work has been carried out froman ethnic point of view. Various bibliographical sources have been used, and above all legislative ones.This paper arises to respond to the gap that exists in the history of Spain about the place that the gypsypeople have occupied in the development of the Andalusian identity and its relationship with this proposal of the Preliminary Project of the Law of Flamenco in Andalusia (Consejería de Cultura y PatrimonioHistórico, 2021). We consider that the gypsy theme is a cultural and intrinsic component to the flamenco theme. In Cartas Marruecas (Cadalso, 1979) he masterfully solved the problem of describing thebad manners of the gypsies by executing their artistic manifestations of singing, playing and dancingwith the bad manners of youth. At that time the term flamenco had not yet emerged to refer to this artthat the gypsies in Andalusia produced and disseminated. The aesthetics of flamenco arises before theterm applied to flamenco action.