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Italian Folk Music

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The regional traditional music of Italy: Neapolitan song, Sardinian polyphony and guitar song, the tarantella family of the south, the ballroom liscio of Romagna, Alpine choral song and improvised stornelli. Italy's regions kept their music as distinct as their dialects.

Italy · emerged Medieval period · peak 19th-20th century

Also called: musica popolare italiana, musica tradizionale italiana

History

Regional traditions predate unification and survived it; the Neapolitan song industry of the nineteenth century, the folk revival of the 1960s and the tarantella revival of the 1990s each brought parts of it to a wider public.

What it sounds like

Dialect singing
Polyphonic and choral traditions
Tarantella and other dance families
Accordion, guitar and organetto

Beneath it: canto degli alpini, cantu a chiterra, cantu a tenore, canzone napoletana, liscio, stornello

Beside it: tarantella