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8/23 Agosto - Galatina - Museo Civico Cavoti
from 8th to 23rd August
Galatina – “Pietro Cavoti” Town Museum, Palazzo
della Cultura
free admittance
Tuesday – Friday 9.30 a.m. – 1 p.m. / 3.30 p.m. –
7 p.m. Saturday 9.30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
I LUOGHI NEI CANTI DELLA TARANTA (The places in the songs
of Taranta)
Public exhibition of painting, sculpture and photography by Associazione
culturale Boy’s Sport Arte e Cultura aims at introducing the
visitors to the places in the songs of Taranta to discover the sensitivity
of a country that expresses itself in the passion and intensity
of folk songs. The places in the songs of Taranta represent the
need to underline the belonging to a particular identity; the need
to look at what testifies to stories of humble classes in folk songs;
Among myth and legend the female figure had a leading role in
ancient mythology, from Paleolithic Venus, to Mother Nature Goddes
in the Neolithic, to Greek and Roman myths it has always been
a series of symbols able to represent the history of working class
and farmers. The myth that sings the tobacco working women, tells
the social position of woman and the cultural value in the life
of man linked to the strength of mother woman and to the fascination
of the body with the secrets of procreation. The places in the
songs of the Taranta are a look to popular traditions to collect
in the present the still existing voices and signs, intense forces
able to aggregate different generations in customs, values, needs
and expectations.
(info 3397366882)
Tuesday 19th August – at 7.30 p.m.
Sternatia – Town Hall (ex Convento dei Domenicani)
LA TARANTOLA SPAGNOLA (THE SPANISH TARANTULA)
Empiricism and tradition in the 18th century
Pilar Leon Sanz
Besa Editrice
The more the history of tarantism is expanded on, the more seems
obvious the necessity to leave Southern Italy and notably the Salento
region to face the Mediterranean area. In La terra del rimorso Ernesto
De Martino pointed out a series of relationships with Afro-american
possession cults, Sardinian and Iberian tarantism, suggesting that
there was a “common cultural proto-mediterranean home of the
whole family”. This challenge has been faced only with some
comparisons or innocent mythological modifications. Clara Gallini,
author of the most important study of a “different”
tarantism, that’s to say “argia rituals” in Sardinia,
pointed out that thelack of documents in the Mediterranean area
prevents a serious comparison and an analysis “of dynamics
and cultural exchange”.
In this wake arose the desire of Biblioteca di Studi Storici sul
Tarantismo to study a very little-known area, in which Spanish physicians
of the 18th century analyzed sound and dance therapy for men bitten
by the spider.
Pilar León Sanz, a historian of medicine, who has been studying
for many years the erudite thinking in Spain about musicotherapy,
was engaged in a research and edited this compilation of texts about
tarantism.
La tarantola spagnola for its unpublished texts and precise analysis,
presents a series of considerations.
Pilar Leon Sanz editor of the book (Professor of Navarra University,Spain),
Massimo Bray (Direttore Editoriale dell’Istituto dell’Enciclopedia
Italiana Treccani), Sergio Blasi (Chairman of Istituto Diego Carpitella),
Eugenio Imbriani (Anthropologist - Università del Salento),
Sergio Torsello (Scientific adviser Istituto Diego Carpitella),
Livio Muci (editor).
Friday 22nd August – 6 p.m.
Melpignano – Augustinian Monastery
THE CONFERENCE
International open forum
URBAN AND RURAL, THE DUAL TRACK OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC
The function of places and the change of geographies in the settlement of folk music.
After the international meeting of the last edition of the festival
in which the “question” of La Notte della Taranta was
at the core of the debate among the art directors of important international
circuits and foreign journalists of specialized magazines, this
year there is still the will to keep alive the discussion with this
international network and to meditate on the function of the ”place
of music” and on the process of cultural and geographic change
going on in this area.
Melpignano and the Grecìa Salentina are part of a music geography
in which cultural policies are an instrument of territory development
that is analyzed for its important economic effects. Some journalists
of different countries (Jordi Urpi fromSpain, Ralf Dombrowski from
Germany, Patrick Labesse from France, Jair Tchong from Netherland
and Petr Doruzka from Czech Republic), who collaborate with world
music specialized magazines, will discuss these subjects and propose
a common evolution.
This year too the journalist Valerio Corzani organized the meeting.
He deals with music, youth culture and travels and collaborates
with Il Manifesto, XL by Repubblica, Il Giornale della Musica, Radio
Svizzera Italiana and Radio3 Rai.
Sergio Torsello (Istituto Diego Carpitella scientific consultant)
and Sergio Blasi (Chairman of Istituto Diego Carpitella and Major
of the Municipalità of Melpignano) will attend the conference
chaired by Corzani itself. Presentation and address by Luigino Sergio
(Chairman of Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa Salentina).
Saturday 23rd August
6.00 p.m.
Melpignano - Piazza San Giorgio
QUI,
SE MAI VERRAI. IL SALENTO DEI POETI
Recital-Concerto con Piero Rapanà,
Simone Giorgino, Angela De Gaetano e i Suoni di Adria
Concert-Recital with Piero Rapanà, Simone Giorgino, Angela
De Gaetano and i suoni di Adria
>A performance of words and sounds. A performance combining urban
sceneries with the “noise” of a crude, archaic, wild
nature. This is what the poets’ eyes see and this is the
hope that Fondo Verri creates to welcome the visitors and the
inattentive ones who never realize the charm they live in.
Qui, se mai verrai. Il Salento dei poeti is a recital, a cd and
a book, the tour of an aerea: the poetic guide of the territory
created by Piero Rapanà, Simone Giorgino, Angela De Gaetano
with Adria by Claudio Prima, Maria Mazzotta, Redi Hasa and Emanuele
Coluccia.
The performance, presented by Antonio Errico, is made up of two
sections. One is related to Lecce and the other one to the Salento
region with lines dedicated to Acaya, Roca, Martano, Otranto,
Castro, Poggiardo, Palmariggi, Vitigliano, Cocumola, Porto Badisco,
S. Maria di Leuca and Gallipoli.
The poets quoted in this tour are: Vittorio Bodini, Girolamo Comi,
Ercole Ugo D’Andrea, Rina Durante, Vittore Fiore, Vittorio
Pagano, Claudia Ruggeri, Salvatore Toma, Antonio Verri. (Mauro
Marino)
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