Italian Treasury: Abruzzo
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"Love begins with fine singing," says a line from a song from Abruzzo, a mountainous region of independent people in south-central Italy. Choral songs, a shepherd's leave-taking, holiday and alms-seeking rites, songs for work and courtship, lullabies, a nonsense incantation, funeral laments, narrative ballads, and dance music vividly evoke a vanishing rural life when everyday activity was accompanied by song.
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More music from the Lomax/Carpitella Italian Treasury
| "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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