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Arabic Masters of Folk Culture®
The project Masters of Folk Culture is an effort to expand international recognition of festivals, rituals, and performances which represent the expression of that inseparable value of an area's history.
These witnesses know how to defend the lifeblood of every community with pride. They also know how to pass it on to new generations with modern influences that arise from continuity with the past.
They didn’t bow to the ever increasing pace imposed by a modernity that overwhelms feelings, beauty, relationships, stories, and people: they continue to cultivate these fundamental values of life, offering them to us with conviction, dignity and pride.
Today, their activity should be protected so that these living witnesses and survivors become individuals capable of transferring their living witness to younger generations, as representatives of their various cultures.
The Masters are called to perform are the Itinerant Chairs of Folk Culture, which transform them in teachers of lessons to share tradition and feed new prospects for the future.
The basic requirements of a Master of Folk Culture® are:
1. Presence of a genuine link with the territory that expresses his own tradition, a link based on:
- Memory
- Tradition
- Continuity
- Ability in re-produce this heritage;
2. Ability to express the folk culture of an area in these fields:
- art and performative art
- demo-ethno-anthropology
- handcraft production;
3. Ability to trace these actions and rituals historically;
4. Willingness to transfer the witness of his knowledge to the younger generations, so that the tradition can be transmitted and renewed with respect and consistency.
The evaluation of the applications to become Masters is part of the Italian Network of Folk Culture’s task, following the consultation of its Scientific Committee.
CANDIDATE HERE A MASTER OF YOUR TERRITORY
MASTERS OF FOLK CULTURE® 2012:
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EMILIO JONA
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ROBERTO LICCI
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DARIO GUIDETTI
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MARIA PETRONE |
ADA BOTTERO ZANIER
PIPPINA GUIDA
ENRICO STALLIVIERE
LUIGI DI GIANNI
THE 'NZAMMARUCHELE
Subappennino Dauano
PIER FRANCO CAUSONE
Traditional game - Canavese
FERDINANDO BUSCA
Traditional game - Canavese
IMPROVIDES POETRY (POESIA A BRACCIO)
Maremma
CANTO A TENORE
Sardegna
CHITARRA BATTENTE
Cosentino
MARIAROSARIA CIANFAGNA
Food & Wine, Crafts
NICOLA CAPRARA "NICOL D 'CROC"
Food & Wine, Crafts
GIOVANNA MARINI
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NIGRO COUSINS, GIUSEPPE AND LUIGI
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PETE SEEGER
GIPO FARASSINO
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MASINO ANGHILANTE
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TONINO GUERRA
OPERA OF THE SICILIAN PUPPETS
by TURI GRASSO
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MASTER SINGERS OF CARPINO
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UCCIO ALOISI
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IMPROVISED POETRY - RIETI
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ANTONIO ADRIANO
AND THE SPONTANEOUS GROUP OF MAGLIANO ALFIERI
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CORO BAJOLESE
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AMATEUR - SPECIAL AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION
TO RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION ON FOLK CULTURE
The special award identifies those individuals, organizations and associations engaged in research and encouraging the territories to operate as a network, contributing to the Participated Archive and to the idea of developing the local culture as a common good.
LA LEGGERA CULTURAL ASSOCIATION
CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION ON ORAL CULTURE
CORRADO BARONTINI
CESARE AUGUSTO
GIANCARLO PESSA
ANTONIO SANTO CURTO
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DOMENICO DURANDO
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® Masters of Folk Culture is a REGISTERED TRADEMARK