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cd cover Italian Treasury: Emilia-Romagna
$16.98

Alan Lomax's historic 1954 recordings from the mountains of Emilia-Romagna. Songs of farming, ballads of partisan struggle in World War II, songs of the women rice workers, dance music, age-old new year's songs, and excerpts from unique May rituals redolent of the poetry of the Italian Renaissance, recorded just as industrialization was forever changing the fabric of Northern Italian rural life.

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"This is anything but the commercial clichés of "Amore" and "O Sole Mio." Indeed, what Lomax and ethnomusicologist Diego Carpitella documented astounded folklorists back in Rome, and helped to forge a more comprehensive understanding of Italian folk music... Recorded in 1954-55, the Treasury is sweeping in range and conception..." - Michael Stone, RootsWorld

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