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Author Inserra, Incoronata, author

Title Global tarantella : reinventing southern Italian folk music and dances / Incoronata Inserra
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 210 pages)
Series Folklore studies in a multicultural world
Folklore studies in a multicultural world.
Contents A brief history of the tarantella revival: exploring tarantella through the southern question debate -- Exporting southern Italian festivals from south to north: the post-1990s tammurriata revival -- Images of the Italian south within and beyond world music: Eugenio Bennato's taranta power movement -- Tarantella for U.S., Italian American, and cosmopolitan markets: Alessandra Belloni's performance from New York City to Honolulu
Summary This text ventures into the history, global circulation, and recontextualization of tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance; in particular, it explores this phenomenon by observing local and national music and dance festivals and international dance performances and workshops, as well as by analyzing the contemporary production of new tarantella music text
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 27, 2018)
Subject Tarantellas -- History and criticism
Folk music -- Italy, Southern -- History and criticism
Tarantella.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Folk music
Tarantella
Tarantellas
Southern Italy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017019444
ISBN 9780252099892
0252099893