B009973 - Ethnomusicology 2

Italian

The course consists of two distinct parts:
Part 1. The Salento in searches by Diego Carpitella (1954-1982): music, dance and therapy.
Part 2: Toward a history of jazz. Recent musical experiences in “Modern Jazz”. Writing music, improvisation and performance.

Part 1:
Maurizio Agamennone, Musiche tradizionali del Salento. Le registrazioni di Diego Carpitella ed Ernesto de Martino (1959-1960), con 2 CD allegati, Squilibri, Roma 2005.
Maurizio Agamennone, Musica e tradizione orale nel Salento. Le registrazioni di Alan Lomax e Diego Carpitella (1954), con 3 CD allegati, Squilibri, Roma 2017.
Maurizio Agamennone, Di certi parlati radiofonici e altre sbobinature. Diego Carpitella e la musica (non solo quella ‘popolare’), in dialogo con Alberto Mario Cirese ed Ernesto de Martino, in "Acoustical Arts and Artifacts AAA-TAC Techonology, Aesthetics, Communication", 8-2011, F. Serra ed., Pisa-Roma, 2013, pp. 51-64.

Part 2 (A): to choice one of following titles:
a) Vincenzo Martorella, Il Blues, Einaudi, Torino, 2009;
b) Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Il popolo del blues. Sociologia degli afroamericani attraverso il jazz, ShaKe Ed., Milano, 1994 (1963).
Part 2 (B): to choice one of following titles:
c) Arrigo Polillo, Il Jazz. La vicenda e i protagonisti della musica afro- americana, edizione aggiornata a cura di Franco Fayenz, Mondadori, Milano, 2009;
d) Eileen Southern, La musica dei neri americani. Dai canti degli schiavi ai Public Enemy, Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2007 (ed. or. 1997).

The course consists of two distinct parts: Part 1. The Salento in searches by Diego Carpitella (1954-1982): music, dance and therapy. The course aims to examine and assess which musical practices have been identified and analyzed by Diego Carpitella, and what were the further developments of investigation
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Part 2. History and analysis of jazz and the music of African-American origin. Knowledge of the main experiences of American and European jazz. Knowledge of the main procedures of improvisation.

Competencies: interpret the socio-cultural context in which the musicians act; understanding the evolution of ethnomusicological studies; understand the peculiar traits of certain musical traditions; understand the meaning of intercultural dialogue in the contemporary musical practices.

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Direct class lasts three hours during three months, having continuous restort to sound and visual sources

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The examination is oral. During the test the student must demonstrate: a) to know the arguments relating to the course program and to understand the main conceptual categories; b) to express their views with command of language and knowledge of technical terminology; c) to know the main elements of the grammar of music and the interpretative and analytical methods of ethnomusicological studies.

Module 1 (main course).
The Salento in searches by Diego Carpitella (1954-1982): music, dance and therapy. The Salento was central in ethnomusicological studies in Italy, thanks to the action of Diego Carpitella, who documented practices very original, in instrumental music, in vocal polyphonies, in the therapy for tarantism. Since these pioneering experiences, the studies of local musical traditions of the Italian peninsula have taken an effective model for subsequent developments.

Module 2. History of Jazz: The main experiences of American and European jazz. Procedures in the historical events of jazz improvisation. Writing and extemporary invention: analysis of some experiences