Italian Treasury: Sicily
$16.98
The voices and instruments of peasants, fishermen, shepherds, salt and sulfur miners, cart drivers, storytellers, and strolling players bring us murder ballads, dance music, lullabies, and a tale of battling knights: songs of love, work, and devotion connected to the yearly round. Recorded in the field in the 1950s, this historic document restores to us the colorful and dramatic universe of sound of the Sicilian past.
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More music from the Lomax/Carpitella Italian Treasury
| "Lomax sampled the soundscape of a rural, pre-industrial Italy just as industrialization began to undercut the pastoral economy, crush peasant political movements, depopulate the countryside and erode the transmission of local oral traditions at the core of the folk process. The raw immediacy of these field recordings rocked the Roman folklore establishment and sparked a reassessment of the nature of Italian folk music. " - Michael Stone, RootsWorld |
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