Alan Lomax, Diego Carpitella - Northern and Central Italy flac album

Italy's rough geography and the historic dominance of small city states has allowed quite diverse musical styles to coexist in close proximity. Today, Italy's folk music is often divided into several spheres of geographic influence, a classification system proposed by Alan Lomax in 1956 and often repeated since. The Celtic and Slavic influences on the group and open-voice choral works of the north contrast with the Arabic, Greek, and African influenced strident monody of the south.

Alan Lomax and Diego Carpitella. Alan Lomax Collection. Italian - Traditional Music And Songs Of Italy - Zumba Bimba Sicilian Folk Song. The Last Words of Copernicus. Zumba Bimba - Sicilian Folk Song.

ALAN LOMAX, one of the greatest folkmusic collectors and authorities, is the son of John A. Lomax, first of the great American folksong collectors. Their major collaborations, Our Singing Country and Folksong USA, remain the most exciting and comprehensive selections of American songs. Alan left Harvard to follow his father with a recording machine into the Brazos country and the prison farms, then to travel alone to the North Woods and New Orleans and finally to Mexico, Haiti, Britain, Spain, Italy, etc. compiling material for a World Library of Folk Music. Scarcely more than twenty, he took.

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Alan Lomax traveled and recorded in Italy in 1954 with the help of italian ethnomusicologist Diego Carpitella. They recorded extensively and in all parts of the country including some islands.

Recorded by Alan Lomax & Diego Carpitella. The change the folk music of Italy experienced in the1950s was not an effective gradual process.

He is considered one of the greatest scholars of Italian folk music and has written and published many essays on the subject. He collaborated with the Centro Nazionale Studi di Musica Popolare from 1952 to 1958, collecting more than 5,000 Italian folk songs