(2008-2011)

together with Dr. Moya A. Malamusi in search of music and dance traditions. I was interested in filming music-making in villages and urban centres where street musicians performed away from the mass media markets and industrial production. The basic aim was to extensively collect video documentation of music and dance repertoires. For many years already, in fact, I have been mainly interested in experiencing methods and techniques of filming music events and exploring examples for a video musical ethnography (Adamo 2010). I was very happy to have the opportunity of travelling throughout Malawi guided by Dr. Malamusi who has great experience in documenting music and dance in Malawi, a deep knowledge of local cultures in Malawi and a very good personal connection with many musical groups and individual musicians. A more specific aim of my project was to provide material to collect data on the relationship between music and body motion, continuing a project started years ago and based, in its first step, on video field research done in South Italy (see further)