Indeed, the worldвЂ™s love of flamenco has long created problems within Spain, where the performance was once considered a vulgar and pornographic spectacle. Inside Spain, however, the relationship between the flamenco art form and Spanish national identity has been fraught for more than a century. Indeed, the world outside Spain often stereotypes the nation as inhabited by flamenco dancers, singers, and guitar players who are so вЂњpassionate,вЂќ they have little time to engage in the day-to-day world of the mundane. For proof of its currency in pop culture, look no further than Toy Story 3: Buzz Lightyear is mistakenly reset in вЂњSpanish mode,вЂќ and becomes a passionate Spanish flamenco dancer. and elsewhere, flamenco is a pervasive marker of Spanish national identity. The text beckons us to вЂњfall in love with Spain-and BatesвЂ™ вЂFlamenca!вЂ™вЂќ and encourages us to discover вЂњfashionвЂ™s new passion in bedspreads вЂ¦ each bedspread smoldering with two tones of a hot-blooded color.вЂќ

Dancers from SpainвЂ™s Ballet Teatro EspaГ±ol de Rafael Aguilar perform flamenco during a rehearsal at the National Theater in Taipei, Taiwan, in 2006.Дuring the 1964-1965 New York WorldвЂ™s Fair, an advertisement for the Bates textile company in the Pavilion of SpainвЂ™s official guide book featured a fetchingly posed young woman, rose in mouth, with a ruby red bedspread draped over her body to form the likeness of a flamenco dress.

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