In 2020 and 2021, the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic suspended or limited importan... more In 2020 and 2021, the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic suspended or limited important rites and the web became the place to fill the void. In March 2020, I started to conduct virtual fieldwork on this development from the perspective of what happened to the pilgrimage to the Holy Trinity of Vallepietra (Central Italy).
Dottorato di ricerca in scienze etno-antropologiche. 10. ciclo. Coordinatore tutore Pietro L. Cle... more Dottorato di ricerca in scienze etno-antropologiche. 10. ciclo. Coordinatore tutore Pietro L. ClementeConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale - P.le Aldo Moro, 7, Rome; Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale - P.za Cavalleggeri, 1, Florence / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal
In 2020 and 2021, the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic suspended or limited importan... more In 2020 and 2021, the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic suspended or limited important rites and the web became the place to fill the void. In March 2020, I started to conduct virtual fieldwork on this development from the perspective of what happened to the pilgrimage to the Holy Trinity of Vallepietra (Central Italy).
This article provides an overview of the questions that emerged from an action research project i... more This article provides an overview of the questions that emerged from an action research project in the centre of the Padana Plain - Cremona Province and some surrounding provinces – in which the author, together with some students and former students, has been engaged since 2014. The aim of the still ongoing project is to understand the various levels of inclusion of migrants and asylum seekers in analysing their musical behaviours. The project is threefold: to document and analyse if and how the different migrant groups can perform their rites; to organise musical workshops in middle schools in order, at the same time, to collect data about the musical listening and practices of children and to introduce them to transculturality through world and folk music; to organise musical workshops in Reception Centres for asylum seekers to understand if and how music has a role in their suspended lives and to try to use it for resilience. Considering that it is a right for migrants to be ab...
This review describes the XXXVI European Seminar in Ethnomusicology as a virtual event organized ... more This review describes the XXXVI European Seminar in Ethnomusicology as a virtual event organized by colleagues. The event is important to all ethnomusicologists and people interested in the field of ethnomusicology globally. It is mainly to inform about the organization and the way of interactions among its members.
As part of a larger fieldwork project on music and migration in Cremona (Lombardy, Italy) and its... more As part of a larger fieldwork project on music and migration in Cremona (Lombardy, Italy) and its surroundings, I have been studying the musics of migrants’ rituals since 2015. In the kaleidoscopic religious soundscape made up of more than 15 churches and temples – from Sikh, to Orthodox, to Buddhist – a larger part is made up of Christian Africans. Their religious practice is organised by faith and nationality, thus most of them have specific churches and priests. But the chants they sing tell a story of multiple ethnic and local belongings, a richness of musical specificities and languages that comes from the various cultural capitals of the participants who mix nationality with place of origin, ethnicity, nation of reception, Christianity and Africanness. Furthermore, an attempt by the Diocese to create a single transnational community of African Francophone Christian churches is taking place. In my article I concentrate my attention on the role music has in these rituals. Which ...
Thanks to the initiative by the Cremona's Municipality to nominate traditional violin making in C... more Thanks to the initiative by the Cremona's Municipality to nominate traditional violin making in Cremona for the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, between 2010 and 2012 I had the opportunity to put together three different kind of video documents on violin-making craftmanship in Cremona. The first one was mostly research footage; the second one was the UNESCO nomination video; the last piece consisted in an articulated documentation of the Cremona violinmakers' skills and knowledge. It was a real challenge, since the dimension of violin making is completely intangible and deeply rooted in a thick net of relations and organizations. As a first step in my fieldwork, I did my own shooting, whereas I worked in collaboration with Lorenzo Pizzi (Terra d'ombra s.r.l.) in the other two projects. This collaboration has been essential. We shared our intentions and integrated our competences in every step of the job: from documentation to editing. In order for the skills and knowledge of this craftsmen and the deep involvement of their mind and body to fully emerge, we developed a reflexive format, using delayed observation and sharing our video research as much as possible with violinmakers themselves. In this way, video recording was not a medium of objectification but rather became a tool of investigation.
In 2020 and 2021, the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic suspended or limited importan... more In 2020 and 2021, the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic suspended or limited important rites and the web became the place to fill the void. In March 2020, I started to conduct virtual fieldwork on this development from the perspective of what happened to the pilgrimage to the Holy Trinity of Vallepietra (Central Italy).
Dottorato di ricerca in scienze etno-antropologiche. 10. ciclo. Coordinatore tutore Pietro L. Cle... more Dottorato di ricerca in scienze etno-antropologiche. 10. ciclo. Coordinatore tutore Pietro L. ClementeConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale - P.le Aldo Moro, 7, Rome; Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale - P.za Cavalleggeri, 1, Florence / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal
In 2020 and 2021, the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic suspended or limited importan... more In 2020 and 2021, the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic suspended or limited important rites and the web became the place to fill the void. In March 2020, I started to conduct virtual fieldwork on this development from the perspective of what happened to the pilgrimage to the Holy Trinity of Vallepietra (Central Italy).
This article provides an overview of the questions that emerged from an action research project i... more This article provides an overview of the questions that emerged from an action research project in the centre of the Padana Plain - Cremona Province and some surrounding provinces – in which the author, together with some students and former students, has been engaged since 2014. The aim of the still ongoing project is to understand the various levels of inclusion of migrants and asylum seekers in analysing their musical behaviours. The project is threefold: to document and analyse if and how the different migrant groups can perform their rites; to organise musical workshops in middle schools in order, at the same time, to collect data about the musical listening and practices of children and to introduce them to transculturality through world and folk music; to organise musical workshops in Reception Centres for asylum seekers to understand if and how music has a role in their suspended lives and to try to use it for resilience. Considering that it is a right for migrants to be ab...
This review describes the XXXVI European Seminar in Ethnomusicology as a virtual event organized ... more This review describes the XXXVI European Seminar in Ethnomusicology as a virtual event organized by colleagues. The event is important to all ethnomusicologists and people interested in the field of ethnomusicology globally. It is mainly to inform about the organization and the way of interactions among its members.
As part of a larger fieldwork project on music and migration in Cremona (Lombardy, Italy) and its... more As part of a larger fieldwork project on music and migration in Cremona (Lombardy, Italy) and its surroundings, I have been studying the musics of migrants’ rituals since 2015. In the kaleidoscopic religious soundscape made up of more than 15 churches and temples – from Sikh, to Orthodox, to Buddhist – a larger part is made up of Christian Africans. Their religious practice is organised by faith and nationality, thus most of them have specific churches and priests. But the chants they sing tell a story of multiple ethnic and local belongings, a richness of musical specificities and languages that comes from the various cultural capitals of the participants who mix nationality with place of origin, ethnicity, nation of reception, Christianity and Africanness. Furthermore, an attempt by the Diocese to create a single transnational community of African Francophone Christian churches is taking place. In my article I concentrate my attention on the role music has in these rituals. Which ...
Thanks to the initiative by the Cremona's Municipality to nominate traditional violin making in C... more Thanks to the initiative by the Cremona's Municipality to nominate traditional violin making in Cremona for the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, between 2010 and 2012 I had the opportunity to put together three different kind of video documents on violin-making craftmanship in Cremona. The first one was mostly research footage; the second one was the UNESCO nomination video; the last piece consisted in an articulated documentation of the Cremona violinmakers' skills and knowledge. It was a real challenge, since the dimension of violin making is completely intangible and deeply rooted in a thick net of relations and organizations. As a first step in my fieldwork, I did my own shooting, whereas I worked in collaboration with Lorenzo Pizzi (Terra d'ombra s.r.l.) in the other two projects. This collaboration has been essential. We shared our intentions and integrated our competences in every step of the job: from documentation to editing. In order for the skills and knowledge of this craftsmen and the deep involvement of their mind and body to fully emerge, we developed a reflexive format, using delayed observation and sharing our video research as much as possible with violinmakers themselves. In this way, video recording was not a medium of objectification but rather became a tool of investigation.
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