Pasolini and Lomax protagonists in Napulitanata with a photographic exhibition

The illustrations will be combined with qr-code technology, which will allow users to listen to music from the traditional repertoire from their smartphone. Campanian recorded “in the field” by Alan Lomax, giving life to a suggestive and immersive experience.

“The goal is to turn the spotlight on the figure of Pier Paolo Pasolini, in the year of the centenary of his birthhighlighting lesser known aspects of his career as a researcher and essayist, focusing attention on the territorial link with our region from a musical point of view “, this is the comment of Mimmo Mataniapresident of Napulitanata, the company that since 2017 has been stably offering Neapolitan music concerts in the heart of the city.

“It is precisely on the terrain of traditional Campania music that, in particular in the 1971 film ‘The Decameron’, the ‘virtual’ meeting between Pasolini and Alan Lomax takes placegiven that the director chooses, as the ‘ideal’ soundtrack of the film, a series of sound recordings made in Campania by the American ethnomusicologist in the 1950s “, he continues Raffaele Di Mauroethnomusicologist and member of the Lomax Study Center.

The exhibition will be available free of charge upon reservation at [email protected] or by telephone at 3489983871. The following conference will take place on 3 December at 3.30 pm, again in the Napulitanata spaces, and will feature ethnomusicologists, scholars and researchers. The project realized thanks to the co-financing of the Campania Region, with the moral patronage of the Municipality of Naples, the Archaeological Museum of Naples and the Federico II Department of Humanities.