Global Tarantella

Reinventing Southern Italian Folk Music and Dances

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvIncoronata Inserra

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Tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance, is an international phenomenon--seen and heard in popular festivals, performed across the Italian diaspora, even adapted for New Age spiritual practices. The boom in popularity has diversified tarantella in practice while setting it within a host of new, unexpected contexts. Incoronata Inserra ventures into the history, global circulation, and recontextualization of this fascinating genre. Examining tarantella's changing image and role among Italians and Italian Americans, Inserra illuminates how factors like tourism, translation, and world music venues have shifted the ethics of place embedded in the tarantella cultural tradition. Once rural, religious, and rooted, tarantella now thrives in settings urban, secular, migrant, and ethnic. Inserra reveals how the genre's changing dynamics contribute to reimagining Southern Italian identity. At the same time, they translate tarantella into a different kind of performance that serves new social and cultural groups and purposes. Indeed, as Inserra shows, tarantella's global growth promotes a reassessment of gender relations in the Italian South and helps create space for Italian and Italian-American women to reclaim gendered aspects of the genre.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-10-13
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor226
FörlagUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN9780252041297

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CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Brief History of the Tarantella Revival: Exploring Tarantella through the "Southern Question" Debate2. Exporting Southern Italian Festivals from South to North: The Post-1990s Tammurriata Revival3. Images of the Italian South within and beyond World Music: Eugenio Bennato's Taranta Power Movement4. Tarantella for U.S., Italian American, and Cosmopolitan Markets: Alessandra Belloni's Performance from New York City to HonoluluFinal ThoughtsNotesWorks CitedIndex

"Against a complicated history of Italian folk music and its recovery, Inserra provides an insightful account of tarantella in its home region of Campania and in its migration throughout and outside Italy, intertwining her fieldwork with existing scholarship." --Italian American Review"Gratifying to read. Makes a significant contribution--finally, in the English language, where few studies have been previously available--to the study of this rich, diverse, and globally relevant music phenomenon."--Luisa Del Giudice, coauthor of Performing Ecstasies: Music, Dance, and Ritual in the Mediterranean"Enhances our understanding of southern Italian music and dance while also refining our general models of folklore revival. The book shows how musicians graft their performances onto ever-shifting contexts of reception among mobile Italian and international audiences. It richly demonstrates that local perspectives on musical tradition are every bit as tricky as global ones."--Dorothy Noyes, author of Humble Theory: Folklore's Grasp on Social Life