I.O.H.I. News Archives

Festival and Symposium

October 24 - November 5, 2001
"Italian Jews: Memory, Music, Celebration"

Music and Dance Workshops

Traditional Italian Instruments: music workshops for: tambourine, jaw's harp, friction drum, and other instruments from the oral traditions of Southern Italy. Fall/Winter, 2000
Traditional Italian dances: traditional dance workshops from the pizzica tarantata to the tarantella and tammurriata, as well as Northern Italian traditional dances. Fall/Winter, 2000

Spring, 2001:

Luisa Del Giudice will be attending the: Kommission für Volksdichtung (KfV) (International Ballad Commission) annual meeting in Budapest this April, followed by a second meeting, also in Budapest, of the Société Internationale dEthnologie et de Folklore, S.I.E.F., to which she has been nominated to the executive slate (election pending). She will then go to the Licenza valley (Lazio) to do a field project on the folklore of archaeological sites, collecting stories told about such sites by archaeologists and the local residents alike

Music CD Released:

If you are interested in recent sound releases featuring field recordings from the 1970s-1980s from the Salento, southern Puglia, please see:

1) "Bonasera a quista casa: Antonio Aloisi, Antonio Bandello ("Gli Ucci"): Pizziche, stornelli, canti salentini," ed. by Luigi Chiriatti (preface and translation into English by Luisa Del Giudice), Lecce: Edizioni Aramirè, 1999.

2) "Canto d'amore: canti, suoni, voci nella Grecia salentina" (`Love Song: Songs, Sounds, and Voices from the Griko-speaking area of the Salento), ed. by Luigi Chiriatti, (introduction and translation into English by Luisa Del Giudice), Lecce: Edizioni Aramire' and UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, 2000.

You can order your copies by writing to Roberto Raheli at the following e-mail address: [email protected]