The sounds of heels clicking on wood and hands clapping were, as foreseen, ubiquitous in Seville during the past week, marking the start of the southern Spanish city's annual Flamenco Biennial. By ...

While flamenco in its purest form is a solitary song which usually consists of hand clapping, foot stomping and dance, by the dawn of the 19th century, the guitar was very much integrated into what ...

A guitar starts slowly, the strumming building in intensity. A singer emerges, lamenting lost love, pain, death. Suddenly a dancer appears, and another, and amid staccato hand-clapping and shouted ...