Not everyone agreed. Indeed, since the late 19th Century, many Spanish intellectuals had begun to view flamenco as regressive and cheap, the remnant of a backward-looking Spain reeling from the loss of what was left of its colonial empire in the Spanish-American war of 1898. These modernists saw flamenco as seedy and vaguely comic. Leery of its cultural value, they associated it with Spain's myriad social and economic ills. To them, flamenco wasn't an art, it was a form of entertainment, and a rather vulgar one at that.
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