Andalusian folklore: the ancient Malaga music that is NOT flamenco

[Quasar]

Verdiales are a festive manifestation of ancient and peasant origin, socio-musical of certain geographical areas in the province of Málaga.



Verdiales Festival is one of the strongest cultural expressions rooted in the Malaga area but is especially related to the region of the mountains.



The root of the Verdiales is a controversial issue, having dominated for years the idea of its Moorish heritage and its cataloging within flamenco songs. This hypothesis was put into question as some researchers became interested in this Malaga folklore and found that the Saturnian, common and gregarious nature of their practice, rudeness and copious accompaniment of his touch and the most distinctive flowers hat and bows necessarily remitted to times not only before flamenco or before the Arab invasion, but even before romans and phoenicians.



In Professor Miguel Romero Esteo opinion, to trace the millennial milestone of Verdiales we have to go back to the origins of Europe in the mysterious Minoan civilization of Crete (2800 BC.), Where the people were accustomed to be crowned with flowers hats, representing the exaltation of these fertility that was common in ancient Mediterranean matriarchal philosophy.

[Alessio]

Uhh this is actually from Campania not Andalucia:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...oVerdiales.jpg

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdiales

[Quasar]

Uhh this is actually from Campania not Andalucia:

Comic scene with strolling musicians. Fresco from the Villa of Cicero (Pompeii). (Wikipedia)

It´s not from Campania or Andalusia for obvious reasons. The image is there only to illustrate how Verdiales comes from ancient European tradition because of the similarities. I guess it can be used for other European ancient folk music.

[Quasar]

Uhh this is actually from Campania not Andalucia:

It is explained here:

In a mosaic dedicated to Bacchus found in Cordoba, a woman playing a kind of tambourine appears. This instrument, also spread across much of the Mediterranean, has been very popular in Spain in dances until the nineteenth century and today.

[Alessio]

It is explained here:

In a mosaic dedicated to Bacchus found in Cordoba, a woman playing a kind of tambourine appears. This instrument, also spread across much of the Mediterranean, has been very popular in Spain in dances until the nineteenth century and today.

Could be, I recognized the painting from Pompeii indeed and some tammurriata songs.