Hosted by Paolo Scarnecchia · EN · 17 episodes
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Poking around the Mediterranean, this podcast gives voice to researchers, scholars, performers, and artists who are digging through its rich intangible heritage with music and poetry always in mind. Paolo Scarnecchia, author of the podcast, in each episode meets experts, performers and artists who will present the musical traditions, passed down from generation to generation, and influenced by migrations, history and people all along the centuries in the Mediterranean region. In this journey, we will also explore how this heritage continues to evolve nowadays. Mediterranean Intangible Heritage Soundscape is a podcast by Paolo Scarnecchia, produced by UNIMED, Mediterranean Universities Union. Musical works included in the Podcast are used for purpose of illustration for teaching, and not for commercial purposes. About the Author Paolo Scarnecchia is responsible for the UNIMED Music sector. He has taught History of Music and
Paolo Scarnecchia hosts Mediterranean Intangible Heritage Soundscape, a music show with 17 episodes published.
The Cantu in paghjella is a living singing tradition of the Mediterranean island of Corsica, and it is based on three parts vocal registers. It is performed a cappella and it begins with the so called segonda, that gives
Kudsi Erguner has devoted his life to promoting the rich heritage of Ottoman musical history on the international stage, a legacy also shaped by the contributions of Turkish, European, and Arab musicians. At the heart of
In this episode we will travel right into the heart of Turkey with Jérôme Cler, lecturer in ethnomusicology at Paris-Sorbonne University. Despite the variety of his cultural experiences, Cler’s interest has remained cons
Fado, the urban song of Lisbon, was inscribed in 2011 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Fado’s history partially mirrors that of 20th-century Portugal. Its ill-famed origins link
As the title of Adnan Haydar’s new book announces, New Words to Old Tunes, in this episode we are brought into the fascinating world of recited and sung verbal duels, rooted in Lebanon’s oral poetry tradition. Zajal is a
The convivial meetings perfectly encapsulate the social dimension of the Cretan traditional music. Within these gatherings, the sound heritage of the Greek island is nurtured and passed on, as explored with Ioannis Papad
Ioannis Papadatos has been a long‐term participant‐observer during a fieldwork in the island of Crete to prepare his dissertation about the local performances of Cretan traditional music for the University of Kent’s degr
The multipart singing of the rural Southern region of Portugal, called cante alentejano, is proudly performed by amateur choral groups that intone two short simple poems, first the cantiga and then the moda, standing sid
When a musical culture is endangered and can nearly die out, it may happen that a single person can help to draw attention on it and stimulate the creation of a virtuous circle to induce a revival, even in a society whic
When we think about what has been called “classical music” of Maghreb, oral by tradition and linked to a past medieval artistic splendour, we immediately think of Morocco and Algeria, then of Tunisia, but much less of Li
Who are the Moroccan professional female singer-dancers (shikhat) from the rural Atlantic plateau? And what the Moroccan migrants in Italy, in particular the community of workers in Umbria, listen to? These and many othe
This episode will let us travel in the Balkan Area and beyond, following minorities and migration flows. The definition of the so-called "applied ethnomusicology" intersects with various activities that include study and
In the beginning it was plainchant with its different forms, many of which were replaced by the Gregorian chant where the Gallican and Roman traditions merged. It is to all this variety of dialects of the Christian litur
In the beginning it was plainchant with its different forms, many of which were replaced by the Gregorian chant where the Gallican and Roman traditions merged. It is to all this variety of dialects of the Christian litur
La langue musicale du MAQÂM et ses éléments clés is the third episode of Mediterranean Intangible Heritage Soundscape, and is in French. At the source of the different musical cultures flowing into the Mediterranean worl
This episode will let us travel in the Bosnian musical tradition, and in particular in the city of Sarajevo. Unrequited love is the fuel of the melancholic fire that burns in the heart of the Bosnian urban song of Saraje
This episode will let us travel in the Syrian musical tradition, and in particular in Aleppo's ones. Jonathan Holt Shannon, interviewed for this episode, traces an historical excursus in the traditional music ending up i
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Mediterranean Intangible Heritage Soundscape is hosted by Paolo Scarnecchia. The show is categorised under music (commentary) and has published 17 episodes.
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