Night of the Taranta, an Italian folk music festival akin to Woodstock, celebrates a musical tradition that dates to antiquity. The Folk Music Festival That Started With A Spider Bite The tarantella ...

Pizzica has transcended its Dionysian roots to find its place in the centre of the biggest festival in Italy, and is now performed worldwide – but as with all ancient arts, adapting to modernity ...

The pizzica is a trance-like ancient dance considered rebellious by the ancient Romans for uniting people across classes. Credit: NYPL public domain Full size 1024 × 764 ...

Maria Mazzotta has certainly kept some traces from her punk-rock adolescence in Puglia, the heel of the Italian boot, the energy and anger carried by her hoarse, torn voice, and blue and purplish ...