Associate Professor
PEMM-01/D Etnomusicologia
giuseppe.giordano@uniroma2.it
Positions held
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Inter-University Study Center on the Italian Cantata (CLORI)
Secretary of the Italian Committee of the ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music)
Education
Ph.D in Music and Performing Arts (curriculum History and Analysis of Music Cultures) – Sapienza University of Rome (2016)
Master in Cultural Anthropology (Second Level) – University of Palermo (2012)
Teaching Positions
Ethnomusicology
Popular Music Studies
Laboratory of Ethnomusicology
Fields of research
His research focuses mainly on the social aspects and functions of traditional music, especially in relations to popular devotion. Recently He has also worked on the relationship between ethnomusicology and virtual fieldwork. He has carried out field research in Italy, Spain, Greece and in Tunisia. He published essays, articles and books on the subject of his studies topics
Peer Reviewer for the following journals
Etnografie Sonore / Sound Ethnographies
Selected international colloquia and papers
2014. Congreso Internacional “Virgo Dolorosa. Religiòn, antropología historia y arte”, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (sede en Carmona, Sevilla); title: Tradizioni musicali per l’Addolorata in Sicilia
2016. III Congreso Latinoamericano de Religiosidad Popular, Valladolid; title: Drammaturgie musicali per la Settimana Santa in Sicilia
2017 International Conference of the Kommission für Volksdichtung “Street Music and Narrative Traditions”, Museo Internazionale delle Marionette di Palermo; title: Ritual Calls in Some Villages of Western Sicily
2018 IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Religiosidad Popular “Palabras a la imprenta. Tradición Oral y Literatura en la Religiosidad Popular”, Valladolid; title: Tradizioni musicali del Natale in Sicilia fra scrittura e oralità: il tema del “viaggio a Betlemme”
2019 Congreso Internacional “Calle de la Amargura”, Cadice; title: O acerbo incontro. Il dolore di Maria nella tradizione musicale siciliana
2021 I Congreso de la Red Europea de celebraciones de Semana Santa y Pascua, Museo de Osuna (Sevilla); con una relazione dal titolo Paesaggi sonori della Settimana Santa nel Meridione d’Italia
2021 International Conference Musiche di tradizione orale nell’era della conversione digitale. Documentare Archiviare Analizzare Restituire. 50 anni del Folkstudio di Palermo, Palermo – Museo Internazionale delle Marionette A. Pasqualino; title: Ad Alimena (PA) sulle orme di Lomax-Carpitella ed Elsa Guggino
2021 International Seminars of Ethnomusicology, Sapienza University of Rome; title: Pratiche musicali liturgiche e paraliturgiche fra scrittura e oralità