{"id":117,"date":"2016-03-04T08:55:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T07:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archiviomariocervo.it\/website\/\/?page_id=117"},"modified":"2022-03-13T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T11:52:09","slug":"the-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.archiviomariocervo.it\/website\/the-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mario Cervo Archive is the most important collection in the\u00a0world devoted to the music of Sardinia. The archive contains most\u00a0of the phonograph material published, inherent to the Sardinian\u00a0traditional repertoire, recorded between 1922 and 1997.<\/p>\n

It includes more than 10000 catalogued supports and sorted by the ethnomusicologist Paolo Angeli: a job made possible thanks to the intervention of the Regional Institute for Ethnography. The material contained in the Archives allows us today to make a thorough research on what happened musically in Sardinia in 1900.<\/p>\n

The Archive\u2019s core is about traditional music in different genres,\u00a0such as the \u201ccanto a chitarra\u201d (a canto in Sardinian language or\u00a0Gallurese dialect, accompanied by a guitar), the \u201cgara poetica\u201d\u00a0(poetry competition based on improvisation), the \u201ccanto a tenore\u201d\u00a0(choral folk singing, characteristic of Barbagia), the \u201ccanto\u00a0campidanese\u201d (a canto in Campidanese dialect), melody played with\u00a0Launeddas (a typical Sardinian woodwind made of three pipes),\u00a0\u201ctasgja\u201d and \u201ccanto a concordu\u201d (choral folk singing,\u00a0characteristic of Gallura and Logudoro, respectively), and other\u00a0instrumental chants and dances.\"archvio1\"<\/p>\n

But there is also room for the sounds that accompanied the\u00a0washerwomen to the river, to the “heterodox” sounds of an ivy leaf\u00a0used as a reed, for the stories of the great interpreters of the\u00a030s to Radio Sardinia, for the trumpet of an auctioneer, and for\u00a0all the sounds and words that catered for a century, the\u00a0concentric movements between rural, village and town life marked\u00a0by the agricultural calendar.<\/p>\n

The constant research of Mario Cervo has documented the history of\u00a0traditional Sardinian music, leaving us also the pages of a\u00a0different music that over the years has been folkorised and\u00a0Italianised in the texts. Creating an archive centred on the\u00a0island and its music, Mario Cervo gave birth to a single set in\u00a0which we can contemplate the music made by the Sardinians,\u00a0inspired by their land.<\/p>\n

Rejecting all forms of segregation and ideological closure, he\u00a0gave us an unbiased view of what happened musically over a\u00a0century.<\/p>\n

The Archive is open then to modern musical experiences such as pop\u00a0music, jazz and rock. Forms only apparently unrelated to the\u00a0musical history of Sardinia. Even in the Nuraghe editions,\u00a0produced by the same Mario Cervo, the two souls live.<\/p>\n

To the same\"archvio3\" catalog belong the song \u201cWelcome to Costa Smeralda\u201d,\u00a0which evokes the birth of the tourism industry in Gallura and, at\u00a0the same time, the best pages of guitar song in the Post-war\u00a0period, where the extraordinary singers such as Mario Scanu and\u00a0Cicch\u00e8ddu Mannoni express feelings and values of an agro-pastoral\u00a0world that will disappear in a few decades.<\/p>\n

This was the music that Mario Cervo really loved. To this music he\u00a0dedicated his record productions and its simultaneous fieldwork,\u00a0documenting the most\u00a0important phases of the traditional song\u00a0related to socio-cultural changes taking place in Sardinia. Mario\u00a0Cervo, through its record editions, has been actively involved in\u00a0tracing the history of a music at the time too young to arouse the\u00a0interest of ethnomusicology.<\/p>\n

Besides the precious recordings of 1922, it is possible to access\u00a0to hundreds of unreleased tapes, thousands of articles supporting\u00a0the audio parts, as well as modern forms of Sardinian poetry\u00a0related to rap music, and again, shouting punk noise against a\u00a0militarized and cementified Sardinia. This is history too. And it\u00a0is only by knowing in depth the Sardinian culture of the last\u00a0century and the social reality in which we live that we can\u00a0understand what are the micro-elements that make our traditional\u00a0music, so repetitive and minimal to the ear of a stranger, deeply\u00a0rich and unique.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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