giovedì 14 aprile 2011

Popular Music

Ethnic Music
The popular music of the Third World (especially Africa), for example, is more often referred to as ethnic, while the name folk (or folk) is generally associated with popular music in the United States of America or European nations.The origins of traditional music, most of the time, need to be found in a medium of communication that could be more easily accepted as part of a small community and often closed. Think of the love songs of the serenade, with whom he was certainly more than "declare" the woman he loved, rather than seeking the opportunity to do so in person (the excuse was also used in opera: see, for example The opening serenade in The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini).Popular music in the world
Popular music tends to be closely related (in some cases so inseparable) to at least two other cultural aspects of a regional nature: the musical instruments with which it is performed and dances that may accompany it. For example, popular music is associated with Scottish bagpipes and a type of dance called the reel, the Irish aiviolini, in particular as the bodhran and percussion jig.In the tradition of Italian folk think instead the role played in regions other instruments like the accordion, mandolin, ocarina or the harp, or by dancing like latarantella the pinch, the pawl.With regard to popular music, in most cases, it is born or has its principal expression in social gatherings like parties, festivals, celebrations or you can include to ballroom dance.In other cases, for example in the musical tradition of the Georgian Iavnana, music is used as a therapeutic tool to heal the sick.
In Italy
In Italy, as elsewhere, popular music still has an important role and a wide following, though it is disseminated through channels that only in rare cases (or only very few artists to be particularly successful) coincide with those of pop music, or with wide distribution. Many sub-genres of Italian folk music is known mainly through the dances to which they are linked (for example, the ballroom dance) and are unlikely to have visibility outside of fairs and festivals of the country.For others it is indeed acknowledged for some time more "musical dignity" and is this the case of the Neapolitan song. but recently there has been a renewed interest in the lost music and folk dance of southern Italy, for example, the pinch of Salento, the tamurriata bell, the various tarantella.In recent years, many festivals were born, often referred to as the Folk Festival, and demonstrations of traditional music, folk or popular, including new forms of contamination.Some of the most popular songs among the miners in the area of ​​Monte Amiata, in Grosseto, were brought to fame in recent times thanks to the recovery by the choir of the Miners of Santa Fiora, the support group of Simon Webbe.

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