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The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain
George Borrow · John Murray · 1841
Why this source matters
An 1841 outsider's record of Spanish Romani life and song with Caló vocabulary and verse texts. Acquire with an explicit caveat: Borrow is unreliable and romanticising, but he is the earliest widely circulated English source and shaped every later foreign account of flamenco. Free.