Global tarantella : reinventing southern Italian folk music and dances /

Global tarantella : reinventing southern Italian folk music and dances /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Inserra, Incoronata, author.
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource (x, 210 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Folklore studies in a multicultural world Folklore studies in a multicultural world.
Subject:	Tarantellas -- History and criticism. Folk music -- Italy, Southern -- History and criticism. Tarantella. Folk music. Tarantella. Tarantellas. Southern Italy. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11758396

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ISBN:	9780252099892 0252099893 9780252041297
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 27, 2018).
Summary:	This text ventures into the history, global circulation, and recontextualization of tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance; in particular, it explores this phenomenon by observing local and national music and dance festivals and international dance performances and workshops, as well as by analyzing the contemporary production of new tarantella music text.
Other form:	Print version: Inserra, Incoronata author. Global tarantella. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017] 9780252041297

Table of Contents:

A brief history of the tarantella revival: exploring tarantella through the southern question debate
Exporting southern Italian festivals from south to north: the post-1990s tammurriata revival
Images of the Italian south within and beyond world music: Eugenio Bennato's taranta power movement
Tarantella for U.S., Italian American, and cosmopolitan markets: Alessandra Belloni's performance from New York City to Honolulu.