Folk Music of Italy, Episode 8: Calabria, Sicily, and Sardinia (part 3)

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Date recorded: June 13, 1955
Contributor(s): Performer: Lomax, Alan; Broadcaster: BBC
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Track Number: 28
Archive ID: B028
Original ID: T578R01
Note: Discussed in this part: High and lonesome wagoner's song. Strambotto meter, first Italian poetry. Threshing song ('dispetto'). The gleaners of Modica. Ninna nana: "Sleep is coming from Messina." Harvest celebration dance with cane flute, tambourine, and guitar. Traveling (in Fiat) ballad singer tabloid news performance describing lurid murder. The professional storyteller in the village square with sound effects from wooden sword. Tunafishermen sing "oldest sea chanteys known anywhere."
Belongs to: Folk Music of Italy (BBC)
About the session: The Folk Music of Italy was an eight-part series of Italian folk music produced and hosted by Alan Lomax for the BBC's Third Programme. The recordings were made by Lomax during his Italian field trip in 1954 and early 1955; the series was compiled before his return to England in the early spring of 1955.
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