26 diciembre 2005

¡Feliz Navidad!

José y María pasan por Carboneras, camino a Belén.
Isabel -- una amiga y vecina de Carboneras -- canta villancicos flamencos mientras toca la zambomba, en nuestra fiesta de Navidad del Club de Lectura en la Biblioteca Municipal de Carboneras. (No tenemos grabación de Isabel, pero para oir algo muy similar, pincha El Nacimiento (Gloria).)

Sobre la zambomba y su tradición, pincha Zambombas de Jerez. Y para más historia, Auge del villancico flamenco. ¿Sabías? "La palabra villancico deriva de villano (lat. villanus), y originariamente designaba a un labriego, habitante de una casa de campo; más tarde designó a la copla cantada por el labriego."
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Geoffrey Fox's short story collection Welcome to My Contri (1988, enlarged e-book 2010) was described by The New York Times Book Review as a "short and impressive work" in which "Mr. Fox [...] has created a memorable set of players who, while not natural antagonists (they often share the same dreams and goals), are still somehow bent on confrontation. Watching their sometimes vicious, often darkly humorous interactions leaves us thoroughly wrung out and aware that we are in the presence of a formidable new writer". Novels: A Gift for the Sultan (2010), Rabble! (2022) His articles, op-eds and book reviews have appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, the Village Voice and other publications. Since 2008, Fox has been living with his partner, architect Susana Torre, on the edge of the Mediterranean in the village of Carboneras in Andalusia, Spain, where his short stories (in Spanish) under the pen name "Baltasar Lotroyo" ("el otro yo" = alter ego in Spanish) have appeared in anthologies and online publications.