Flamenco Memory
At the age of eighty-seven she died in Sevilla, "poor and forgotten," thinking that flamenco was also dying. "Los niños modernos, la juventú, nos mira como cosas raras, sin pensá que hemos jecho yorá con nuestras gitanerías a tre generaciones."
Yet a decade later the flamenco arts were experiencing a renaissance, and she herself as Juana la Macarrona was well remembered. An award at the Concurso nacional de Córdoba has been named the "Juana la Macarrona" prize in her honor.
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“Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)