Diego Carpitella (
Reggio di Calabria
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, 12 June 1924 –
Rome
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, 7 August 1990)
was an Italian professor of
ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context. The discipline investigates social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and investiga ...
at
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara and
La Sapienza University
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in
Rome
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. He is considered one of the greatest scholars of
Italian folk music
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and has written and published many essays on the subject. He collaborated with the
Centro Nazionale Studi di Musica Popolare from 1952 to 1958, collecting more than 5,000 Italian folk songs. He was also the founding editor of the journal ''Culture musicali'' and a co-founder of the cultural magazine ''Marcatre''.
External links
Complete Carpitella bibliography
Further reading
Agamennone, Maurizio and L. Di Mitra, eds. ''L'eredità di Diego Carpitella.Etnomusicologia, antropologia e ricerca storica nel Salento e nell'area mediterranea.'' (2003) Nardò, Besa Editrice.
References
Italian folk musicians
1924 births
1990 deaths
20th-century Italian musicians
Academic staff of the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome
Italian magazine editors
20th-century Italian musicologists
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