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Fandango vs Flamenco - What's the difference?

fandango | flamenco |

As nouns the difference between fandango and flamenco

is that fandango is a form of flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina while flamenco is a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.

As a verb fandango

is to dance the fandango.

fandango

English

(wikipedia fandango)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A form of flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina)
  • An unknown entity or contraption
    • What’s that fandango you’re using?
  • A shade of red-violet

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dance the fandango
  • (figuratively) To dance, particularly with a lot of energy

    • flamenco

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
  • * 2010 , Mike Marqusee, The Guardian , 5 Feb 2010:
    • It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.
  • (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
  • * 1977 , (Tennessee Williams), Vieux Carré , I.3:
    • La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!

    See also

    * fandango ----