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Cante jondo () is a vocal style in flamenco, an unspoiled form of Andalucia folk music. The name means "deep song" in Spanish language, with hondo ("deep") spelled with J () as a form of eye dialect, because traditional Andalusian pronunciation has retained an aspirated H lost in other forms of Spanish.
The common traditional classification of flamenco music divides it into three groups, of which the deepest, most serious forms are known as cante jondo.
Cante jondo is linked closely to the suffering and marginalization experienced by Romani people.
Lorca had evidently used the title for a 1921 collection of poems, although he did not publish it for ten years.
In 1931, García Lorca presented a conference devoted to keeping the rich tradition of the cante jondo alive. The following is translated from the conference notes by Lorca:
The cante jondo approaches the rhythm of the birds and the natural music of the black poplar and the waves; it is simple in oldness and style. It is also a rare example of primitive song, the oldest of all Europe, where the ruins of history, the lyrical fragment eaten by the sand, appear live like the first morning of its life. The illustrious Falla, who studied the question attentively, affirms that the Romani people Siguiriyas is the song type of the group cante jondo and declares that it is the only song on our continent that has been conserved in its pure form, because of its composition and its style and the qualities it has in itself, the primitive songs of the oriental people.Paraphrased slightly from , as translated on the Casa de la Guitarra Española site; the liberty has been taken of correcting their mistakes in English spelling and usage.
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