This year again in Puglia took place the longest night of Italian folk music: 150,000 fans arrived to Melpignano (close to Lecce) to attend the ” Night of Taranta”, the final concert of this event so tied to historical memory of Puglia’s people. The Antidoto Tarantulae original intro, written by Master Conductor Giovanni Sollima, opened the event. The text was written by Jesuit Athanasius Kircher in the Seventeenth Century. The cellist brought on stage the “Venticello”, an orchestra made up…
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What’s folk music? As the term suggests, it’s a music produced by lower classes: and that is the reason why it differs from that produced by upper classes, the so-called educated music. Folk music, unlike other genres, it’s nearly always linked to times of the year, historical periods and moments of people’s life, so becoming the result of a collective experience. Like the Homeric poems, folk music tends to remain anonymous, and is orally passed through generations: therefore it’s potentially…
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