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Tony Bryant

author - journalist - travel writer

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Journalist, travel writer and author Tony Bryant has lived in Andalucía for more than 30 years. Born in South London, UK, in 1961, the former rock drummer is the author of several books of Spanish theme, including a trilogy covering the art of flamenco. He is considered a knowledgeable authority on flamenco, specifically the genealogy of the large Gypsy clans that reside in the provinces of Seville and Cádiz.

He is affiliated with El Museo del Baile Flamenco (MBF), a state- of- the- art flamenco dance museum in Seville, the editorial arm of which published his flamenco trilogy between 2006 and 2015. The museum also displays a family tree that the author constructed which traces the roots of an Andalusian Gypsy clan that are considered one of the mightiest flamenco families in Spain.

Bryant also writes for the award-winning www.andalucia.com - an online platform that offers in-depth information on the eight provinces of Andalucía. 

He has also participated in tertulias on subjects such as flamenco, the Spanish language and the works of British Hispanist Gerald Brenan at the Gerald Brenan Cultural Centre (ACGB) in Málaga.

Arriving in Málaga in 1994 in order to concentrate on his passion for writing, he soon discovered Seville, a city that he now calls home and a place that he describes as ‘a mixture of dream and reality’.

The author has participated in television and radio documentaries about flamenco and Andalucía with BBC Radio 4, CNN (Richard Quests’ World of Wonder), the Dutch television programme ‘Metropolis’, and Canal Sur and La Filmahora, with whom he participated in a Spanish documentary about the legendary flamenco singers La Fernanda y La Bernarda de Utrera.

Since 2016, he has worked as a journalist for SUR in English (www.surinenglish.com ), a Málaga-based newspaper that is part of the Vocento media group.

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An Englishman's Passion
My Books

A Cohort of Creative Bohemians

           and other interesting individuals

Gitanerias

The Essence of Flamenco

Flamenco Heritage

The Clan of El Pinini

Flamenco

An Englishman's Passion

All available from Amazon
My Books
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Seville: a legacy of enchantment XIX - XXI

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Numerous romantic travellers and foreign writers and artists began to include Andalucía in what was termed the ‘Grand Tour’ in the first quarter of the 19th century. Most of these foreigners, like Lord Byron, Richard Ford, Robert Dundas Murray and Washington Irving, headed straight for Seville, a city which, until then, was little known to the outside world. Many books have since been published about the history of Seville, including those by the aforementioned foreigners: these offer an insight to Seville and its architecture, its culture and traditions and its religious and social backcloth, much of which is still standing, both structurally and culturally.

The majority of these romantic travellers arrived in Seville aboard a steamboat along the Guadalquivir, although the skyline that confronted them has changed greatly since that time. Since then, most of the fortified walls and gateways have vanished, and sprawling areas like Plaza de España and Parque María Luisa have appeared. One might ask what Seville would be like today if it had not hosted the World Exhibition in 1929, a landmark in the contemporary history of Seville, and one which shaped the city’s 20th century image on the world stage.

This book focuses on the last 200 years, from the invasion of Seville by Napolean’s forces during the War of Independence (1808-1814), until the arrival of the Romantics, and those that followed in the 20th century.  But what was it that so fascinated these early romantic writers, and more to the point, does Seville still contain that Oriental flavour that imbued the city they wrote about?

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