ON-STAGE CALLS:
      AN ETHNOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE IN
              PROFESSIONAL FLAMENCO PERFORMANCE
            by Mariana Audrey Marguerite Maduell

A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Division of the University
   of Hawai`i in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
          degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics
                           December 1994

                          ABSTRACT

     This dissertation describes jaleo and cues, two genres of calls that
occur on stage during professional flamenco performance.  It is based on
performance data collected over the last nine years, especially 1985 through
1988, plus additional material from earlier periods.

     Chapters one through three provide general background.  Chapter one
introduces the idea of taking frameworks usually used in the analysis of
performance situations in which language use is the most important aspect of
the situation and applying them to situations in which language use is only
one of many aspects of the performance, and indeed not the focus of the
performance, which is the case for on-stage calls in flamenco.  It also
details certain words and concepts as they will be used in the dissertation.
Chapter two presents a brief survey of relevant literature.  Chapter three
provides background information on flamenco, its performance, and its
performance speech genres: cante, jaleo, and cues.

     Chapters four through six discuss three separate levels of analysis for
jaleo and cues: characteristics of the calls themselves, the calls in the
context of performance, and considerations with respect to verbal art.

     Chapter seven concludes the study by presenting my findings for the three
levels of analysis attempted, reinforcing my claim that existing methods can
be applied profitably to examine this type of language use.  Ideas are offered
for further research of both other flamenco linguistic situations and of
similar linguistic phenomena in other cultures.  Appendices of flamenco
terminology and videography are also provided.

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