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Colección de cantes flamencos, recogidos y anotados
Antonio Machado y Álvarez ('Demófilo') · Imp. El Porvenir, Sevilla · 1881 · Originally in Spanish · scholarly
The first systematic collection of flamenco song texts, gathered from legendary Gitano singers in 1880s Seville.
About the author
The compiler is identified as Machado in the title and imprint, working in Seville in 1881. Beyond this attribution and the evidence of his scholarly annotations in the work itself, little is reliably documented about him in standard flamenco histories. He appears to have been a Seville-based writer or collector with direct access to leading performers of the era.