Ritual, rapture and remorse
Subtitle: a study of tarantism and pizzica in Salento
By: Jerri Daboo.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9783039110926
Subjects: Folk dance music -- Italy -- Salento -- History and criticism; Folk dancing -- Italy -- Salento; Tarantism -- Italy -- Salento
Description: 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"--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Embodying pasts and presence; title: Whose history is it? : examining the historical records of tarantism; title: Remorse, transformation and scazzicare : de Martino revisited; title: Revivals, roots and raves : the performance of pizzica in contemporary Salento.