Diego Carpitella (
Reggio di Calabria
Reggio di Calabria ( scn, label= Southern Calabrian, Riggiu; el, label=Calabrian Greek, Ρήγι, Rìji), usually referred to as Reggio Calabria, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, is the largest city in Calabria. It has an estimated popula ...
, 1924 -
Rome
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, 1990) was an Italian professor of
ethnomusicology at
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara and
La Sapienza University
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in
Rome
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, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
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. He is considered one of the greatest scholars of
Italian folk music 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.
Italian folk musicians
1924 births
1990 deaths
20th-century Italian musicians
D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara faculty
Sapienza University of Rome faculty
Italian magazine editors
20th-century Italian musicologists
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