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Italian folk dance has been an integral part of Italian culture for centuries. Dance has been a continuous thread in Italian life from Dante through the Renaissance , the advent of the tarantella in Southern Italy , and the modern revivals of folk music and dance.
The most important book about pizzica and tarantism is The Land of Remorse, written by the Italian philosopher, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino. [ 1 ] There are several traditional pizzica groups, the oldest being Officina Zoé, Uccio Aloisi gruppu, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino , and I Tamburellisti di Torrepaduli.
Tarantella (Italian pronunciation: [taranˈtɛlla]) is a group of various southern Italian folk dances originating in the regions of Calabria, Campania, Sicilia and Puglia. It is characterized by a fast upbeat tempo, usually in 6 8 time (sometimes 12 8 or 4 4), accompanied by tambourines. [2]
Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. OCLC 265458368. Sawyers, June Skinner (2000). Celtic Music: A Complete Guide (First ed.). Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81007-7. "War Type Dances". Dance History Archives at StreetSwing.com
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Saturday's entertainers include the Tuscan Trio at noon and I Campagnoli at 3 p.m., as well as the Italian Dance Party featuring G4 Live Band and Cavalieri Reale at 6 p.m. on the Italian Stage.
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. With the emergence of the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare in 1970, the notion of a musical group organized to promote the music of a particular region (in this ...
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. Today, Italy's folk music is often divided into several spheres of geographic influence, a classification system proposed by Alan Lomax in 1956 and often repeated since.