To many Americans, the name Andalucía may well sound like a new brand of perfume or something equally exotic, enchanting, and totally unfamiliar. Proud of our own history, we should well be humbled by that of Andalucia, whose past is as old as tragedy and as lingering as beauty. Indeed, as Allen Josephs> notes, its civilization "is the oldest in the Western world." MR. Josephs, a professor of Spanish at the University of West Florida, has spent years studying, working, and living in Spain. His article on Andalucía is the opening chapter of a book, White Wall of Spain, which Mr. Josephs is writing in collaboration with Douglas Day, a professor of English at the University of Virginia (who is completing a biography of the Andalusian poet, García Lorca). The book is due to be published by Viking in late 1979 or early 1980. The two Americans are attempting to show Andalucía as it existed in antiquity and as it still exists up to the present. Mr. Josephs holds graduate degrees from the University of Madrid, New York University, and Rutgers University.