Filming a vocal contest in context: A case study on a form of extemporary sung poetry in Tuscany (Italy)

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dc.contributor.authorD'Amico, Leonardo
dc.contributor.editorHui, Yu
dc.contributor.editorD'Amico, Leonardo
dc.contributor.editorDefrance, Yves
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-16T12:07:38Z
dc.date.available2022-11-16T12:07:38Z
dc.date.issued2018-07
dc.date.updated2022-10-22T14:54:44Z
dc.description.abstractThe contrasto is a traditional performance practice widespread in some rural villages of Maremma, southern Tuscany, Italy. It consists of a vocal challenge between two or more traditional extemporary singer-poets called poeti in ottava rima. The contrasto was traditionally performed in informal convivial gatherings a tavolino (at the table) in peasant societies, but in the last decades it has become a theatrical performance in which the poeti increasingly perform sul palco (on stage) in front of an audience, in planned festivals. My paper is intended to highlight the relevance of the visual dimension in a vocal extemporary performance whose codes are orally-aurally-visually transmitted, in which the interaction between the extemporary poets and the audience tend to condition, influence and sometimes determine, the development of the performance. In such a case, the audiovisual recording becomes an essential research tool allowing to "catch" the visual dimension of this context sensitive performance in its multidimensionality and with all contextual dynamics that it implies.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationD'Amico, L. (2018) 'Filming a Vocal Contest in Context: A Case Study on a Form of Extemporary Sung Poetry in Tuscany (Italy)', in Hui, Y., D'Amico, L. and Defrance, Y. (eds). Ethnomusicology in Audiovisual Time, Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, pp. 22-37. isbn:978-7-308-18210-2en
dc.identifier.endpage37en
dc.identifier.isbn978-7-308-18210-2
dc.identifier.startpage22en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13859
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherZhejiang University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofEthnomusicology in Audiovisual Time
dc.relation.urihttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Ethnomusicology-Audiovisual-Time-HUI-ZHU/dp/730818210X
dc.subjectAudiovisual ethnomusicologyen
dc.subjectExtemporary poetryen
dc.subjectAudiovisual ethnomusicologyen
dc.subjectPerformance practiceen
dc.subjectResearch filmen
dc.subjectTuscany, Italyen
dc.subjectEthnomusicologyen
dc.subjectFilming musicen
dc.titleFilming a vocal contest in context: A case study on a form of extemporary sung poetry in Tuscany (Italy)en
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