Dances with Spiders: Crisis, Celebrity and Celebration in Southern ItalyBerghahn Books, 1 Δεκ 2008 - 224 σελίδες For centuries, the rite of the tarantula was the only cure for those ‘bitten’ or ‘possessed’ by the mythic Apulian spider. Its victims had to dance to the local tarantella or ‘pizzica’ for days on end. Today, the pizzica has returned to the limelight, bringing to the forefront issues of performance, gender, identity and well-being. This book explores how and why the pizzica has boomed in the Salento and elsewhere and asks whether this current popu- larity has anything to do with the historic ritual of tarantism or with the intention of recovering well-being. While personal stories and experiences may confirm the latter, a vital shift has appeared in the Salento: from the confrontation of life crises to the vibrant promotion and celebration of a local sense of identity and celebrity. |
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... roles or unspoken judgements, who exploded emotionally, venting their anger and desires in ritualized form, so as to (often temporarily) reinstate a sense of integrity, wholeness, soundness, in the face of everyday life. By the turn of ...
... role in this context. Morley and Robins (1995) have considered the media's implications in reimagining a contemporary Europe 'without frontiers'. Anxieties provoked by shifting and dissolving boundaries and points of reference, leading ...
... roles, may both reflect and shape sociocultural upbringing. This correlation may underlie the direct and potentially therapeutic impact of performance practices on the experience of everyday life, taking into account that well-being ...
... role to that of a creative 'choreographer'. The Conclusion, Chapter 9, 'Dancing Beyond Spiders', draws together the key threads of this study. Considerations of tarantism and its modern developments suggest that afflictions associated ...
... role as 'astrologist, singer, guitar and accordion player, assistant to the tarantate' (Collu 2005: 123), she is – almost imperceptibly – directing the goings-on at the chapel. She calls out to the musicians: 'I'll grant you three, four ...
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CH 2Webs through Time | 55 |
Part IIThe Spiders Cult Today | 77 |
CH 3Curing Myths and fictive cures | 79 |
CH 4Ads and antidotes | 101 |
CH 5Sensing Identities and Wellbeing | 121 |
CH 7Tarantula threads and showbiz airs | 159 |
CH 8Spider WoMen transformed | 189 |
Part IVConclusion | 211 |
CH 9Dancing Beyond Spiders | 213 |
Epilogue | 220 |
Bibliography | 221 |
Filmography | 239 |
Index | 241 |
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