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(eseguito da/informants: “Ciurna: della tonnara di Castellammare del Golfo
Crew of the Castellammare del Golfo “tonnara”)
c) Gnanzu
(eseguito da/informants: “Ciurma” della “Ciurma” della tonnara di Favignana/same as above)
THE ANTHOLOGY
This anthology of Sicilian folk music and songs includes a series of original documents that
consist of work songs, serenades, dances, stories of the orbi, cantastorie, religious songs and
others. The criteria with which they have been selected and documented are based upon the same
theoretical premises and methodology as that used for in-the-field research. The songs were
recorded, whenever possible, within the work or recreative situation in which they are actually
performed; therefore, several of the documents are, or will soon be, a final testimony of certain
moments in life in which the expression of song emerges from necessity of circumstances.
Cover design: Domizia Gandolfi
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