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Diego Carpitella Scholarship 2024 – New Call

Diego Carpitella – Scholarship

Deadline for applications: 1 April 2024

New call for applications for an annual research scholarship of 5,000 euros in memory of Diego Carpitella, to be awarded to a young researcher to produce an audiovisual product of ethnomusicological interest. Projects received in response to the call for applications will be assessed by a panel of three experts. The winner will undertake to produce the work, which will be premiered in Venice. A copy of the material produced during the project will be kept in the Institute for Comparative Music Studies Archive.

Intersezioni Musicali 10

Patterns of Change in the Traditional Music of Southeast Asia is the tenth volume in the series “Intersezioni Musicali”, published by the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies in collaboration with the publisher Nota (Udine). Edited by the director of the Institute, Giovanni Giuriati, the book’s seven chapters bring together original research on Southeast Asian music conducted in the field. The aim of the book is to explore how traditional music of this area of the world deals with change. In fact, processes of globalisation, urbanisation, heritagisation and mediatisation have deeply affected music cultures on mainland and insular Southeast Asia from the late 20th century into the early 21st century. The various chapters discuss case studies based on extensive research in Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Indonesia (Java and Sulawesi). The main themes include the role of music in the inculturation processes pursued by the Catholic church and in possession cults, shadow theatre and other theatrical genres. There are also reflections on the processes turning traditional music into showbiz (spectacularisation) and the adoption of new musical instruments. From the point of view of method, the book is particularly original in its combination of painstaking musical analysis and an anthropological approach based on extensive ethnographies. The authors of the case studies are young researchers, mostly Italians, who studied at the Sapienza University of Rome and then went different ways in their doctoral and post-doctoral studies. Published in English to reach a wider international audience, the book grew out of a research project of national interest (PRIN) and a seminar held at the Fondazione Cini in 2017 and has been published with the support of the Sapienza University of Rome. Each chapter is illustrated by rich audiovisual documentation accessible through QR codes in the text that take you to a dedicated section on the publisher’s website.

Music of the Twenty-First Century Diasporas: Research and Methods

The volume Music of the Twenty-First Century Diasporas: Research and Methods is the third in a series of online publications by the IISMC, stemming from the international ethnomusicology seminars that the Institute organises each year. It is a series that addresses current and original research topics, contributing to an international debate on the discipline and at the same time constituting an important educational tool, especially at university level. Edited by Serena Facci and Giovanni Giuriati, the volume derives from the seminar bearing the same title organised in San Giorgio in 2020, just before the outbreak of the pandemic. Through the contributions of various authors, mostly Italian, it aims at providing a multi-voiced reflection on the musical life of the many migratory contexts that can be observed in Italy.

A vivid and varied picture emerges from the contributions, both in terms of the particularities of the musical cultures called into play and of the research themes: interaction with Italians, transmission of musical knowledge among second generations, role of musicians and their dynamic relationship with the ‘motherland’, transnationalism of sacred musics, use of technologies that are increasingly involved in – and determining – the construction of feelings of belonging in the broad and everchanging diasporic borders.

An extensive introduction by Serena Facci and two important chapters by Adelaida Reyes and Francesco Remotti lucidly contribute to tackling the theoretical issues underlying the volume. This initial theoretical part is followed by the presentation of original research conducted by young scholars on the musical practices of various diasporic communities that have settled in Italy recently or for a long time, including Armenians, Chinese, Ukrainians, Eritreans and Sikhs. The last part of the volume takes up, in the light of the research presented, questions of method concerning this peculiar and intrinsically transnational object of research.

In the papers the reader may find several links to audio and video examples that illustrate the research by means of audiovisual documentation, making this volume fully multimedia.

Link to the publication

Polifonie “in viva voce” 13

Polifonie “in viva voce” is a yearly event organised by the Giorgio Cini Foundation’s Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies in collaboration with the G. Mazzariol Department of History of the Arts and Conservation of Artistic Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. After having brought together music groups and scholars from many European regions in previous years, the programme for the 13th edition features traditional group singing from Piedmont. The spotlight will be on the Coro Bajolese, a choir from Bajo Dora, a tiny village of 350 inhabitants situated in the Canavese (an area in the north of the Province of Turin). Founded in 1966, the choir produced a very long and radical ethnographic enquiry into the collective memory and musical traditions of the village. The hundreds of documents collected were then housed in the Centro Etnologico Canavesano in 1975. The choir has performed in a large number of concerts in Italy and Europe highlighting on stage the modes and processes used by rural and mountain societies in the practise of group singing, as mean of binding local communities and giving form to local identity. The collection of songs brings together and reï¬‚ects very diverse social practices: from work in farm ï¬elds, mountain pastures and woods to games and religious practices. Another important aspect in this polyphonic singing is the preservation of the memory of broader historical developments involving events with much wider-ranging repercussions than the direct effects on small communities: the memory of the Great War, the Resistance during the Second World War, the experience of emigration and workers’ protest movements. The programme is divided into two parts: a seminar, involving Amerigo Vigliermo, Maurizio Agamennone and singers from the Coro Bajolese, will examine the musical, anthropological and social aspects of polyphonic singing practices in the Canavese area; and a concert in which the Coro Bajolese will perform the most representative songs from their polyphonic repertoire.

Seminar ore 4pm
curated by Maurizio Agamennone and Amerigo Vigliermo

Concert 6.30pm
Coro Bajolese

Free entrance

For further info:
Istituto Interculturale di Studi Musicali Comparati
tel. +39 041 2710357
musica.comparata@cini.it

Percussione iraniana: Zarb 2006 a cura di Bijan Chemirani

Polifonie “in viva voce” 12// di area veneta e friulana

Having reached its twelfth edition, this year the theme is Polyphonies from the Veneto and Friulan area. This particular event is one of the results of research financed by the Vittore Branca Grant, awarded by the Veneto Region to promote research into Veneto culture. The 2008 edition has, moreover, been organised in collaboration with the Provinces of Padua, Venice and Udine, the City of Venice, and Friuli Region. The event is divided into three afternoon sessions, in which audiences of musiclovers and scholars can hear performances by polyphonic groups representing various types of ensemble singing performed in the Veneto-Friulan area – the multifaceted expression of many local musical identities.

On October 18 the programme futures:

10.30 Seminar:
Acquisition, conservation and publication of traditional poliphonic music from North Est Italy with M. Agamennone, T. Camellini, M. Conati, M. Del Negro, G. Giuriati, G. Morelli.

ore 16 Concert:

Coro Doberdob, Monrupino, TS
Conductor: Herman Antonic

Coro Bianche Cime, Belluno
Conductor: Mirco Piccolin

Coro Nediskij Puobi, Pulfero, UD
Conductor: Giuseppe Chiabudini

Coro Voci della Ferrata, Verona
Conductor: Andrea Carrara

Coro Ermes Grion, Monfalcone, GO
direttore: Denise Marcuzzi

Coro Du Muini, Gazzo e Grantorto, PD
Conductor: Luciano Rampazzo

Copernicoro, Udine
Conductor: Serena Vizzutti

Cantori de la Val , Fumane, VR

India: Divina Sensualità

As part of the series India: Divina Sensualità, in homage to Alain Daniélou in the year of his 100th anniversary, the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies of the Giorgio Cini Foundation organised a Round Table dedicated to its founder.
In addition to that, a concert by scholars who have studied Indian music at the Giorgio Cini Foundation takes place at 20.30.
This event is aimed at stressing the importance of Indian worskhops and classes that have been organised by the Institute throughout the years, following the mission that Daniélou always pursued: spreading great music traditions from the East in the Western world, with a special attention to Indian music.

Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
25 October 2007, Venice, Round Table: 16.00 – Concert: 20.30

Information
Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies
tel. +39 041 2710357
e-mail: musica.comparata@cini.it