The text examines published and unpublished materials – such as historical and ethnographic sources, archive records, and musical documents – which testify the presence of tarantism in Sicily from mid-17th century to the end of the 19th. The Sicilian case is then considered in a wider context of contributions on the theme, starting from the ‘classic’ De Martino’work, up to the debate on the interpretation of the phenomenon between the poles of exorcism and possession, chiefly rased by French ethnomusicologist Gilbert Rouget. The analyses is therefore expanded to the tradition of snakes bites healers (the ciaràuli), which shares with tarantism the spider symbolism, and to certain kinds of religious processions characterised by frantic ‘dance...
The tambourine with a spider drawn on the drumhead is the symbol of Salento, the Notte della Taranta...
International audienceWith the aim of deepening our knowledge of tarantism’s iconographic tradition,...
In this study I would like to build a cultural bridge between Akita and Salento, discussing two repr...
The text examines published and unpublished materials – such as historical and ethnographic sources,...
Widely known as „folk revival,” the tarantism phenomenon (otherwise known as “tarantolism”) has gain...
The phenomenon of tarantism has ancient origins, dating back to the Bacchic rites in ancient Greece,...
The diploma work called The Phenomenon of Tarantism and the Traditional Musical and Dancing style of...
Far from being a mere historical reconstruction of the complex and culturally conditioned zymology o...
Il testo prende in esame il complesso di materiali editi e inediti (fonti storiche e archivistiche, ...
A musical culture based on trance and possession survived in Catholic Europe until the early 1990’s—...
The work analyses the connections between the famous Tarantella of a A Doll’s House and the phenomen...
Lyric Possession: A Dramatization of Italian Tarantism in Song is a one-act creative project informe...
Apulian Tarantism as a particular form of music therapy has always been used as a strategy to cope w...
Recensione del volume di Karen Lüdtke, Dances With Spiders. Crisis, Celebrity and Celebration in Sou...
While during Renaissance in Northern Italy, the first humanists theorized the revival of Hellenisti...
The tambourine with a spider drawn on the drumhead is the symbol of Salento, the Notte della Taranta...
International audienceWith the aim of deepening our knowledge of tarantism’s iconographic tradition,...
In this study I would like to build a cultural bridge between Akita and Salento, discussing two repr...
The text examines published and unpublished materials – such as historical and ethnographic sources,...
Widely known as „folk revival,” the tarantism phenomenon (otherwise known as “tarantolism”) has gain...
The phenomenon of tarantism has ancient origins, dating back to the Bacchic rites in ancient Greece,...
The diploma work called The Phenomenon of Tarantism and the Traditional Musical and Dancing style of...
Far from being a mere historical reconstruction of the complex and culturally conditioned zymology o...
Il testo prende in esame il complesso di materiali editi e inediti (fonti storiche e archivistiche, ...
A musical culture based on trance and possession survived in Catholic Europe until the early 1990’s—...
The work analyses the connections between the famous Tarantella of a A Doll’s House and the phenomen...
Lyric Possession: A Dramatization of Italian Tarantism in Song is a one-act creative project informe...
Apulian Tarantism as a particular form of music therapy has always been used as a strategy to cope w...
Recensione del volume di Karen Lüdtke, Dances With Spiders. Crisis, Celebrity and Celebration in Sou...
While during Renaissance in Northern Italy, the first humanists theorized the revival of Hellenisti...
The tambourine with a spider drawn on the drumhead is the symbol of Salento, the Notte della Taranta...
International audienceWith the aim of deepening our knowledge of tarantism’s iconographic tradition,...
In this study I would like to build a cultural bridge between Akita and Salento, discussing two repr...