It was music Falla had spent years studying, having grown up with it, hearing it directly from Gitano friends, cantaores and tocaores.
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An ethnic dimension also arises: as to how much the art owes to its strong Gitano elements, or to the Andalusian.
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The plaza was decorated for the occasion by the artist Ignacio Zuloaga, whose visual display employed brilliant embroidered textiles and mantones capes of Andalucia; after sundown the setting would become a colorful region of lights beside the Arab palace.
He had long since retired from performing, due to an injury, when the Concurso de Cante Jondo was scheduled to be held in Granada during June 1922.