K. Meira Goldberg, currently a visiting scholar at the Foundation for Iberian Music, has a new book on flamenco that is now available from McFarland! The book is called Flamenco on the Global Stage: Historical, Critical, and Theoretical Perspectives, and it is co-edited with Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum and Michelle Heffner Hayes. Flamenco on the Global Stage features a collection of new essays that address the popular narrative of flamenco’s history and challenge its stereotypes.

Bennahum is an associate professor of dance at UC Santa Barbara. and she has previously collaborated with the Foundation in expert panel discussion on the flamenco in film (in conjunction with 100 Years of Flamenco in New York, an exhibit she co-curated with Goldberg) and Carlos Surinach’s work in modern dance. She is the author of two books on Wesleyan University Press, Carmen, a Gypsy Geography, and Antonia Mercé, “La Argentina:” Flamenco and the Spanish Avant Garde. Hayes is a professor of dance at the University of Kansas. She is the author of a previous book with McFarland, Flamenco: Conflicting Histories of the Dance, and has worked with or advocated for many national dance companies and initiatives, including commissioning new work from NYC’s Tango Mujer (an all female tango company).

Goldberg, of course, is a visiting scholar and she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and FIT. She is heading the organizing committee for the upcoming conference, “Spaniards, Indians, Africans and Gypsies: The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song, and Dance,” to be held April 17-18 at the Graduate Center’s Segal Theater. Several of the book’s contributors will be presenting at this conference, including Claudia Jeschke, Nancy Heller, and Kiko Mora, John Mora, and Brook Zern, as well as Goldberg herself, so please come and say hello!