Musicians' Migratory Patterns: The Adriatic Coasts

Musicians' Migratory Patterns: The Adriatic Coasts contains essays dedicated to the movement of musicians along and across the coasts of the Adriatic Sea. In the course of this book, the musicians become narrators of their own stories seen through the lenses of wanderlust, opportunity, exile, and refuge. Essayists in this collection are scholars hailing from Croatia, Italy, and Greece. They are internationally known for their passionate advocacy of musicians' migratory rights and faithfulness to the lesson imparted by the history of immigration in the broadest of terms. Spanning the Venetian Republic's domination, the demise of the Ottoman Empire, the European nationalistic movements of mid-nineteenth century, the shocking outcomes of World War One, and the dramatic shifts of frontiers that continue to occur in our time, the chapters of this book guide the reader on a voyage through the Adriatic Sea-from the Gulf of Venice and the peninsula of Istria, to Albania, the Island of Corfu, and other Ionian outposts.

Franco Sciannameo is College Distinguished Teaching Professor of Musicology in the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. He is Visiting Professor of Applied Musicology in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures at the University of Leeds, UK.

Chapter 1. Adriatic Geo-Musicology: A Premise Dinko Fabris Chapter 2. Tragedy and Hope in the Strait of Otranto Franco Sciannameo Chapter 3. Music Migrations and Creative Assimilations: The Ionian Islands Kostas Kardamis Chapter 4. The Sailors' Chord: Comparative Research on Traditional Singing in the Quattro Province, the Ionian Islands, and Dalmatia JakSa Primorac Chapter 5. Musicians on the Move in the Early Modern Era: An Instrumental Pilgrimage to L'Aquila Francesco Zimei Chapter 6. The Migration of Seventeenth-Century Music Repertoire to the Cathedral of Hvar in Dalmatia Maja MiloSevic Chapter 7. Migration of Musicians as an Integrative Principle: The Case of the East Adriatic Coast in the Eighteenth Century Vjera Katalinic