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  Italian folk music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The music of the island of Sardinia is distinct from that of the rest of Italy, and is best known for the polyphonic chanting of the tenores.
The modern understanding of Italian folk music has its roots in the growth of ethnomusicology in the 1940s and 1950s and in the resurgence of regionalism in Italy at the time.
The Italian folk revival was accelerating by 1966, when the Istituto Ernesto de Martino was founded by Gianni Bosio in Milan to document Italian oral culture and traditional music.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_folk_music   (1418 words)

  
 The Italian Community in Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Italian peninsula was the birthplace of the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church, and yet, the country that we now think of as Italy has existed as a sovereign state for less than 150 years.
Traditional Italian family roles dictated that the father was expected to be the head of the household, and the mother was expected to deliver warmth and affection.
Some of the Italian music performed by the group is traditional from Italy, but other songs are from the days of early Italian immgration to the United States, and some are the songs of the mid-twentieth century East Coast Italian crooners.
www.abqarts.org /cultural/survey/italian-cs.htm   (5397 words)

  
 Putumayo Presents Italian Musical Odyssey
Putumayo World Music presents Italian Musical Odyssey, a collection of music that provides a new perspective on one of the world's most popular tourist destinations.
Italian Musical Odyssey reveals the depth, diversity and beauty of one of the world's great sources for folk music.
None of the selections on Italian Musical Odyssey have been released in the US before now, and many have never been heard outside of Italy.
www.putumayo.com /cd_europe/italian_odyssey.html   (261 words)

  
 Worldguitarist.com: Chitarra Battente
Most traditional music uses basic chords however, it is the correct syncopation or swing which actually drives the music and gives it the unique and authentically original style and character.
At the dawn of the 20th Century the new wave of Italian immigrants brought to the shores of America especially to New York City the treasures of their Southern Italian Folk Music Tradition.
Upon graduating from the Hartt School of Music (Hartford, Conn.) in 1973 with degrees in classical guitar and composition, he was awarded a scholarship to study in Siena and Florence, Italy.
www.worldguitarist.com /battente.html   (1439 words)

  
 Rounder Records proudly presents the Alan Lomax Collection
From the summer of 1954 to January 1955 Alan Lomax and ethnomusicologist Diego Carpitella undertook a period of intensive fieldwork in Italy.
Songs of farming, ballads of partisan struggle in World War II, songs of the women rice workers, dance music, age-old new year's songs, and excerpts from unique May rituals redolent of the poetry of the Italian Renaissance, recorded just as industrialization was forever changing the fabric of Northern Italian rural life.
Italian Treasury In 1954, Alan Lomax and Diego Carpitella set out on a yearlong voyage of discovery that resulted in an exhaustive documentation of Italian folk music.
www.rounder.com /series/lomax_alan/italian.html   (907 words)

  
 Celtic Music in Italy
Irish session music in the USA is also conservative as is Scots music in Nova Scotia, which means these are often the best places to hear old style authentic music.
American Country music has some Celtic Character in that many (but certainly not all) of its folk song and dance music history comes from “Scots/Irish sources.” I have heard Americans lump all British Isles music together as “Celtic” which is profoundly untrue, as a great deal of English Music is Germanic in character.
To the detriment of true Australian folk music, which was Anglo-German, reels, jigs and Irish style polka replaced the Waltzes and Versovianas of the Australian settlers.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/folk_music/97991   (826 words)

  
 Today in History: February 13
Cowell recorded Olmeda's rendition of six Italian folk songs, including "Marinaro (The Sailor)," and "La Capinera (The Blackbird)," a song he had learned, he said, from his father.
Her recordings and photographs of Italian Americans living in the San Francisco Bay Area are featured in California Gold: Folk Music from the Thirties, 1938-1940.
The musical heritage of numerous ethnic groups representative of the diverse peoples who settled in the San Francisco Bay Area are in California Gold: Folk Music from the Thirties, 1938-1940, including Armenians, Basques, and Croatians.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/feb13.html   (982 words)

  
 Ethica Series of Italian Folk Music, Taranta Records / cdRoots
Folk music from the Majella and the Val Pescara: Abruzzo is a surprising territory which offers many repertories and a lively folk culture.
This disc continues the musical explorations of the liscio dances of Romagna, among the many tradtitional dances that were in use up to the Second World War and that still exist today in the memories of elderly musicians and dancers.
Umbria is one of the least explored regions of Italy, musically speaking, due in part to the progressive dispersion of the popular dance.
www.cdroots.com /rd-ethnica.shtml   (1795 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Italian Musical Odyssey: Music: Various Artists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
There is more to Italian music than the Three Tenors, "O Sole Mio," and "Volare." A burgeoning folk revival has fostered a diverse crop of ensembles and singer-songwriters hailing from throughout the country, including Naples.
The stereotypical notions of operatic tenors singing to senoras in the town square should be demolished by this manifestation of the depth and diversity of Italian musical traditions.
This is Italian roots music-it is important that it is heard outside of Italy.
www.amazon.com /Italian-Musical-Odyssey-Various-Artists/dp/B00004YLBS   (1443 words)

  
 List of Italian Folk Groups
Egidio Faella plays traditional and popular Italian music on the mandolin in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA area.
ASSOCIAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE CALAMUS, from the town of Picinisco in the province of Frosinone, have an ethnic dance group,an accordion orchestra, ethnic music quartet, wind quintet and coro polifonico.
Italian Oral History Institute (IOHI)organizes conferences on Italian folk music, dance and culture and documents oral history.
www.italianfolkmusic.com /grplinks.html   (1255 words)

  
 Musica italiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Unlike the generally well-produced modern roots-inspired music that we mostly play, field recordings are usually made with simple equipment and often in less-than-ideal situations.
In any case, these recordings are not of professional musicians but of ordinary folk who have have been taught (usually orally) the musical traditions of their community.
We are thrilled to have learned that Italian record label Compagnia Nuove Indye (CNI) has struck a deal with the iTunes Music Store for the sale and dowload of some of the CNI catalog.
www.italianfolkradio.com /blog   (381 words)

  
 HumanSongs.com - A Musical Journey to Italy on Weltwunder Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The mixture of rock, tarantelle, canzone Italiana, Irish folk and ska rhythms, with the energy of a rock band, often opens some interesting musical perspective: the south of Italy is always present, with its warm and beautiful melodies, and the passion for immortal, evergreen songs, in this case the Balcan flavoured cover of "Azzurro".
Acquaragia Drom reconstruct a musical journey of gypsy caravans - a gypsy road from the sinti and manouche swing of the Alps, the saltarello in Abruzzo and Molise, the frenetic tarantella from Sicily, Puglia and Calabria to the Neapolitan and Roman gypsy serenata.
This rich musical menu sometimes overloads his records with ideas and details, but in songs like 'Raggatruffen' his musical wizardy shines through when he combines Italian folk tradition with rap and ragga.
www.humansongs.com /WWItaly.htm   (1860 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Italian Treasury: Folk Music & Song of Italy: Music: Alan Lomax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I don't mind admitting that this collection is primarily an historical document, as the folk music and dance traditions that are captured on this CD have been greatly diminished since this recording was made in the mid-1950s.
Folk means PEOPLE and this is music made by real people for the sake of making music, not for selling mass quantities of CDs.
Lomax was a musical anthropologist, whose avocation was recording the indigenous music of global cultures, of which this recording is an example par excellence.
www.amazon.com /Italian-Treasury-Folk-Music-Italy/dp/B00000J2R5   (1649 words)

  
 FolkWorld Article: Ned Ludd - Italian Roots Music
"The music of Ned Ludd", Gianluca describes, "is an attempt to create new folk music; the use of acoustic instruments and rhythms of this genre faces with our background of rock and jazz musicians and audiences.
Ned Ludd's songs are all in Italian and written by Gianluca; the texts seem to be often very political (as the Non-Italian can find out in the English translations of the songs in the booklet).
Music can reach people where words can't - for example also foreign audiences, or children who dance to the music etc. We try to carry the same ideas in our music as we do in our texts.
www.folkworld.de /7/nedludd.html   (1180 words)

  
 Italian Folk Music
Italian folk music is an important part of the country's musical heritage, and spans a diverse array of regional styles, instruments and dances.
With the launch of this blog, we will try to keep you up-to-date with what is happening at our station and in the world of Italian folk music more generally.
ITALIAN SMORGASBORD, 1 p.m., Brookfield United Methodist Church, Brookfield and...
hober.com /italian-folk-music.html   (369 words)

  
 World Music Central - Your connection to World Music
She was born in Terni, in the central Italian region of Umbria.
Galeazzi began singing at the age of 15 with a pop group formed together with friends, only becoming interested in folk music a little later on, when she worked alongside researcher Valentino Paparelli, an expert on the musical traditions of Umbria, and in particular the area of Valnerina.
She possesses a warm, beautiful voice, rich in the typical elements of Italian folk, she is without doubt one of the most interesting singers to have come out of the Italian folk music revival scene in the last few years.
www.worldmusiccentral.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=1405   (405 words)

  
 Italian Folk - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
The music of planet Earth is as diverse as the globe is large.
While western pop music is ubiquitous, making headlines and dominating airwaves, listening to and exploring the music of the world's many cultures allows further opportunities for universal communication.
Western music was once mistakenly considered the pinnacle of the sonic arts.
music.download.com /2001-8807_32-0.html   (175 words)

  
 Record Review (Detroit Metro Times)
(They’re certainly more nostalgic about their music than they are about the food from the British Isles.) Italian immigrants, on the other hand, have long preserved their culture through culinary efforts; but during the past century, there have been remarkably few recordings of Italian folk music widely available here in America.
The album is full of southern Italian folk songs arranged traditionally for violin, accordion, flute, guitar, tambourine and voice.
For a general introduction to the magnificent world of Italian folk music, The Rough Guide to the Music of Italy is a perfect place to start.
www.metrotimes.com /20/35/Reviews/musItalian.html   (442 words)

  
 Italian Treasury: Folk Music & Song of Italy - Alan Lomax - Music Reviews
Alan Lomax, the man who apparently never slept in the 1950s in his quest to document various forms of international folk music throughout the world, made Italy his stop in the spring of 1953.
Italy is a large country with diverse folk musics, and it's impossible to generalize, even in a sweeping manner, about the nature of the sounds documented on this disc -- which was, of course, one of the points of Lomax's expeditions.
There are stark vocals with only jew's harp as accompaniment, sea chanteys, male choruses, accordion music, spooky dances with frame drum and mobile hammers as percussion, guitar ballads, brass bands and more.
www.mp3.com /albums/368233/reviews.html   (437 words)

  
 Southern Italian folk music
This is a collection of songs by southern Italian -American musicians from the 1920-1930's.
The Italian Treasury: Abruzzo...Another collection of folk music recorded by Alan Lomax in the 1950's.Excellant music by the local musicians from Abruzzi.
A chapter on musical magnetism was devoted to Tarantism in Apulia.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Cyprus/4055/mus1.html   (202 words)

  
 Music @ Wesleyan
Kaloyanides, Michael G. The Music of Cretan Dances: A Study of the Musical Structures of Cretan Dance Forms as Perfomed in the Irakleion Province of Crete.
Wolberger, Lionel A. Music of Holy Argument: The Ethnomusicology of Talmudic Debate.
Music and Dance of Haitian Vodou: Diversity and Unity in Regional Repertoires.
www.wesleyan.edu /music/curriculum/Wesdisslist.html   (833 words)

  
 Italian Folk Radio
It is Italian music based on traditional Italian tunes, melodies, or instruments.
It may be purely traditional, or it may be closer to folk-rock, but either way our goal is to play music that is interesting and unique.
From time to time, I will use this space to highlight a CD that is particularly new to the station or I am especially enjoying at the moment.
www.italianfolkradio.com   (359 words)

  
 The Lomax Italian Recordings / cdRoots
A series of recordings made in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s that explores the surviving folk music of many of the countries richest musical traditions
This CD includes sung narratives, including selections from the remarkable "A barca" ceremonial ballad cycle of Baiardo, as well as instrumental dances from the port city of Imperia.
Historic 1954 recordings from Alan Lomax's journey to Liguria's western Riviera, featuring performances by the Compagnia Sacco from the village of Ceriana: a unique and splendid vocal polyphony distinct from, and yet as exciting as, the Genoese trallalero.
www.cdroots.com /roun-italy.html   (628 words)

  
 American Folk - Directory: Folk Music and Dance
- The California Traditional Music Society (CTMS) is dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the traditional Folk Music, dance, and related folk arts of America's diverse cultural heritage.
Explores who Italian folk music and performance modes are adapted by Italian youth.
The goal of this project is to produce a collection of "interesting" ballads from before 1600, containing sheet music and lyrics, both in their original form, and in a form intelligible to a modern listener.
www.americanfolk.com /directory/Folk_Music_and_Dance   (356 words)

  
 Italian folk music
Tuscae gentes is a quartet specialising in folk music as well in Medieval music
Combining traditional music form with politically concerned new lyrics, they were the living soundtrack of Southern Italy workers' fight.
In their music, Sicilian to the core, you can hear echoes of Arabian music and even traces of open throat singing.
italianfolkmusic.blogspot.com   (1074 words)

  
 Celtic Music in Italy
There are some folk magazines in Italian too, but the ones I mentioned are surely more reliable.
I have heard traditional Italian music that sounds basically the sa...
For a complete listing of article comments, questions, and other discussions related to Stephen William Gray's Folk Music topic, please visit the Discussions page.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/folk_music/100452/5   (320 words)

  
 Italian Folk Music: #25
Your comment really got me thinkin'; I've been pondering on questions that've popped up as a result, especially about authors that've entered the canon of "classic contemporary fiction," but get glossed over in favor of Twain and Ernie and Dickins and Hawthorne and F. Scott.
Here are some that I thought of--mind you, these folks are great writers that are recognized as such but don't linger in/terrorize the minds of students for decades, OR authors that are generally ONLY known for one or two pieces, despite great resumes.
I've met some folks that end up buying the book, loving it, and then assuming that's all they should read by O'Brien.
wordsampersand.blogspot.com /2006/09/25.html   (558 words)

  
 Italian Folk Music Forum
Re: children's music - Meri 3/6/2005, 7:23 pm
Re: Italian Folk musicin America - Tina Dalea 1/12/2005, 11:03 am
Re: Italian Folk Songs - K 5/23/2004, 12:54 pm
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