Ethnomusicology in Italy

Carpitella, Diego

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“…For ethnomusicologists like Leydi and Carpitella his extensive field research represented a foundational moment for later efforts by Italian scholars to document, preserve, foster and promote popular culture. Carpitella, who also accompanied Lomax for much of the journey, argues that not only the scope of the project but also the timing – on the cusp of modernisation and social shifts that would in turn alter the practice of oral traditions – made it of great value to later ethnomusicological work: ‘Many of the regions that were barely explored at that time have never been re-examined’ (Carpitalla 1974). Leydi has emphasised the impact of Lomax's influence on different occasions, arguing that his presence in Italy was ‘il punto di riferimento di tutto il revival’ (‘the point of reference for the whole revival’) and ‘decisiva per lo sviluppo di una ricerca etnomusicologica moderna e culturalmente aperta nel nostro Paese’ (‘decisive for the development of modern and culturally open ethnomusicological research in our country’) (quoted in Bermani 2003, p. 135; Leydi 1991, p. 271 n).…”

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Talking Italian blues: Roberto Leydi, Giovanna Marini and American Influence in the Italian folk revival, 1954–66

Love¹

2019

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This article examines how Roberto Leydi and Giovanna Marini, two important figures of the Italian ‘folk revival’, negotiated diverse American cultural influences and adapted them to the political context of Italy in the 1950s and 1960s. I argue that American musical traditions offered them valuable models even as many Italian intellectuals and artists grew more critical of US society and foreign policy. To explore this phenomenon in greater depth, I take as examples two particular moments of exchange. I first discuss American folklorist Alan Lomax's research in Italy and its impact on Leydi's career. I then examine how Marini employed American talking blues in order to reject US society in her first ballad, Vi parlo dell'America (I Speak to You of America) (1966). These two cases provide specific examples of how American influence worked in postwar Italy and the role of folk music in this process.

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Section: Alan Lomax Roberto Leydi and The ‘Other’ Americamentioning

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Talking Italian blues: Roberto Leydi, Giovanna Marini and American Influence in the Italian folk revival, 1954–66

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2019

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Comusichiamo . First Language, Life-Soundtracks and Storytelling to Support the Cultural Wellbeing of Migrants Living with Dementia

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2024

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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Italian Ethnomusicology

Giuriati¹

1995

Yearbook for Traditional Music

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Today Italian ethnomusicologists participate in international meetings and contribute to the main journals of the field. Personal experience leads me to believe, however, that the peculiar history of ethnomusicological studies in Italy as well as the extremely rich and diverse repertories of Italian folk music are little known outside Italy. This is due to a number of reasons. The first one is language. Italian ethnomusicologists have written — and mostly write — in Italian, an international language of musicology, albeit not widely spoken in the ethnomusicological milieu. But the main reason, I believe, lies in the peculiarity of Italian research, focused on the musical traditions of its own country. The history of Italy and the cultural developments of the last century have prompted this situation of self-reflection in a spcific way that I will make an attempt to describe presently.

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Ethnomusicology in Italy

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Talking Italian blues: Roberto Leydi, Giovanna Marini and American Influence in the Italian folk revival, 1954–66

Talking Italian blues: Roberto Leydi, Giovanna Marini and American Influence in the Italian folk revival, 1954–66

Comusichiamo . First Language, Life-Soundtracks and Storytelling to Support the Cultural Wellbeing of Migrants Living with Dementia

Italian Ethnomusicology

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