Posted in Flamenco, Granada, Gypsies, Music, Spain on August 5, 2006 | No Comments »
(Photo by Gabriela Lewton-Leapold via Stan Olmsted.)
Manolin, fastest right hand in the Sacromonte, playing on the Paseo de los Tristes in Granada, Spain.
Tags: Granada, Sacromonte, Gypsies, flamenco
Curt Hopkins
(Photo by Gabriela Lewton-Leapold via Stan Olmsted.)
This is my friend Manolin Heredia Heredia of the Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. “Un gitano del monte negro!”
Tags: Granada, flamenco, Gypsies, Sacromonte
Curt Hopkins
Posted in Blogging, Blogsafer, Committee to Protect Bloggers, Granada, Gypsies, Projects, Spain on June 10, 2006 | No Comments »
I’m readying myself to go out to Washington D.C. and speak to C.I.A. and State Department intelligence types at the Meridian House about blogging and democracy. My point of view? It’s a good idea. I should slap something together so as to not be completely unprepared. I’m thinking along the lines of a bunch of [...]
Posted in Flamenco, Granada, Gypsies, Spain on April 26, 2006 | No Comments »
My friend Maximova is descending on Granada, Spain in June and will stay there until the end of August. She’s going to be working on a documentary about flamenco dance and will be hauling along her director of photography and possibly an assistant. If anyone has suggestions for reasonably priced accommodations for the summer in [...]
Posted in Granada, Gypsies, Spain on March 20, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Spain is a unique place for many reasons, not all of them good. Among all the countries who have had brutal internecine conflicts, as well as those who were ruled by fascists, Spain seems to be alone in not having done anything to address its history. Once when I mentioned Communists in Granada’s Gypsy quarter [...]
Posted in Flamenco, Granada, Gypsies, Publications, Spain on October 8, 2005 | No Comments »
Some years ago a friend and I were all suited up and, with business plan and letters of introduction in hand, were a day away from flying to Los Angeles to chew the ears off half a dozen weasel-headed entertainment executives in the hopes of scoring some backing for an “entertainment property” we had created. [...]
Posted in Granada, Gypsies, Poetry, Spain on September 30, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I would love to put together an anthology of poets who were born or lived in Granada, Spain. I could include Shmuel Ha Nagid, Pedro Soto de Rojas, Solomon ben Judah ibn Gabirol, Judah Ben Shmuel Ha Levi, Federico Garcia Lorca, Rafael Guillén and many others. Granada has had a remarkable ability over the centuries [...]
Posted in History, Spain, Writers on September 21, 2005 | 3 Comments »
I finished reading L.P. Harvey’s book, Muslims in Spain: 1500-1614, a book which addresses in depth the survival of Muslims in Spain after the Peninsula was completely in the hands of Christian rulers. This is a story with a surprising amount of nuance. Once the conquest of Granada was complete in 1492, the story of [...]
Posted in History, Spain on September 7, 2005 | No Comments »
Maria Rosa Menocal is a professor of Spanish history at Yale and the author of the beautiful book on Arabic Spain, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain. Wanting to learn more about what happened to the Muslims in Spain after the Reconquest, I [...]
Posted in Flamenco, Granada, Gypsies, Spain on August 20, 2005 | No Comments »
I recently received the following letter, to my great excitement, but to my distress as well.
hi curt,
i came across your story about manolin by accident.
manolin is a friend of mine too. im an australian flamenco dancer and i live in the (sacromonte).
it was curious reading about gabriel on your site because i was with him [...]
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