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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“She might have been old once and now, miraculously, young again—but with the memory of that other life intact. She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and beyond for what it was. Yet knowing, she still longed to leave this safe, sunlit place at the top of the house for the challenge there.”
—Paule Marshall (b. 1929)