We are thrilled to present and inaugurate on Monday, September 1st at 18.30:XNUMX pm:
"Frame Drum Atlas. Traditional Mediterranean Musical Instruments from Prehistory to the Present," a research project led by Barbara Crescimanno on the frame drum.
By interweaving various disciplines (history, organology, ethnomusicology, archaeology, art history, history of religions, and gender studies) and using iconography as an investigative tool, the Atlas aims to reconstruct and showcase the uniqueness of Southern Italy's ethnic musical heritage in comparison with the wider Mediterranean area, to which it is culturally linked by extremely complex interconnections. This is achieved through iconographic and textual documents spanning the Neolithic to the present, and—for the more recent historical period—audiovisual material.
The frame drum, originally a female instrument, is found in practically every part of the world: telling its story means telling the story of women's spirituality and music from its origins.
The Frame Drum Atlas is a web platform that collects iconographic documents, textual documents, audiovisual and sound material (www.mediterraneanmusicatlas.it) in addition to a multimedia installation site specific, inside the Tavola Tonda headquarters (Palermo), which through an immersive screen will provide the user with a high visual and emotional impact experience.
The event will be live on Facebook, also available remotely for those who are not in Palermo.
