La Nave della Libertà by Ambrogio Sparagna: a music and glee success
La Nave della Libertà by Ambrogio Sparagna: a music and glee success Great success for La Nave della Libertà, a show built by Ambrogio Sparagna to celebrate the Republic’s 70 years old, that proposed a day with social popular singing on the background of a suggestive location as that of the ship crossing Formia-Ventotene. A party-show that presented some singings that go through our national history, able to unite the participants into singings and dances under the master and musicians’ notes. The original show…
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The accordion from Abruzzo
The accordion from Abruzzo At the beginning of the century there’s no emigrant from Abruzzo who didn’t bring an accordion of his land. And the accordion from Abruzzo or harmonic, as it was called, was born in a modest handmade workshop in Giulianova by the end of 1882. It was Francesco Ianni, a little carpenter, who, coming back from a pilgrimage to Loreto, brought back an accordion from what is the accordion homeland, Castelfidardo. The instrument’s success, determined also by the…
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The group Nacchere Rosse is 40 years old
The group Nacchere Rosse is 40 years old At Pomigliano d’Arco they are celebrating the 40 years since the birth of an extraordinary laboring mucic group Nacchere Rosse, closely tied to the laboring fights of those years after the massive industrialization of the area. At the end of ’60s the southern industrialization, brings Alfa Romeo to trasnform the aeronautic high technology plant into a car plant that must produce a new car, called Alfasud. In that period of a big politic…
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Tammurriata Nera
Tammurriata Nera Tammurriata nera is a neapolitan song written in 1944 by E. A. Mario (music) and Edoardo Nicolardi (text). Tammurriata nera relates the story of a woman who gives birth to a coloured child , conceived by a soldier during the american occupation. The woman accepts the son, strong with her maternal love. The whole story is related by a kind of “greek chorus”, that is ironic about the woman spinning the episode’s points of view, or giving him italian…
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The Pizzica from Salento
The Pizzica from Salento The pizzica from Salento is the traditional expression of the territory’s dance. It’s a dance, almost a ritual, practiced by the poorest people, devoted to the hardes works who gathered during the celebration days, and dancing and singing passed the day to forget the exhausting strains of everyday life. The pizzica from salenti, originally, is born as therapeutic music played by men inside the houses (or in the squares) to free the “pizzicate” by tarantula’s bite, that used…
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Vittorio Pozzoni explains the Pan flute to the youngs
Vittorio Pozzoni explains the Pan flute to the youngs The Pan flute’s tradition, a lombard popular musical instrument, can be not only transmitted but also taught to the new generations. At Calco, Lecco’s province, among the field office of the folkloric group “La Brianzola”, the teacher and builder of this characteristic woodwind instrument Vittorio Pozzoni teaches his art to a group of youngs. In collaboration with Calco’s municipality and the association “Culture popolari e Tradizioni della Lombardia”, the builder from Bergamo together with…
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Magna Mater: the laboratory on the popular dance of Stabile Danze del Sud
Magna Mater: the laboratory on the popular dance of Stabile Danze del Sud MAGNA MATER is a laboratory on the contemporary vision of the popular dance organzed by Laboratorio Stabile Danze del Sud by Angela Esposito amonf LED Spazio Danza at Naples. The laboratory has been organized into several meetings, started on Febrruary up to May 7. The laboratory gets involved those who, not having studied dance, want to do a research on the body through some basic principles of the contemporary dance and…
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The 1st May’s popular traditions
Il 1 Maggio segna l’inizio del trionfo della luce sulle tenebre: dopo la desolazione invernale e le incertezze primaverili, ha inizio il semestre del “sole trionfante” che vince gli Inferi. Il 1 maggio è anche la festa dei lavoratori, un evento che viene festeggiato in tutto il mondo. In Abruzzo, tra le montagne di Cocullo, migliaia di pellegrini e curiosi circondano la statua di San Domenico Abate avvolta da un centinaio di bisce catturate intorno al paese dai “serpari”, uomini giovani…
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