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Biography of da da dasse tarantismo in english

Documentary Film. Anja Dreschke. Birgit Minichmayr. Sound Design. Carlo Peters. Hans Schadewaldt, a German physician and medical historian, studied an outbreak of Tarantism in Apulia, Italy, in There are an additional six tracks which are unique reworks of the original recordings by contemporary producers. The original recordings are haunting, repetitive melodies accompanied in a few cases by just drums and clapping, and other times by a full band consisting of a tambourine player, a fiddle player, a piper, and a few others.

The repetitive nature of the music makes sense in context because the music was theoretically supposed to be played until the patient collapsed. Softcover for Shipping in approx.

Biography of da da dasse tarantismo

In the region of Salento in Southern Italy, the music and dance of the pizzica has been used in the ritual of tarantism for many centuries as a means to cure someone bitten by the taranta spider. It also investigates the contemporary revival of interest in pizzica music and dance as part of the 'neo-tarantism' movement, where pizzica and the history of tarantism form a complex web of place, culture and identity for Salentines today.

This is one of the first books in English to explore this fascinating ritual practice and its contemporary resurgence. It uses an interdisciplinary framework based in performance studies to ask wider questions about the experience of the body in performance, and the potential of music and dance to create a sense of personal and collective transformation and efficacy.