Musical Folklore Archives Melpo Merlie

Work song

Sample
Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Work songs
Area: S. Italy, Salento (Italy), Corigliano (Salento)
Nationality:Italian
Language:Hellenophon S. Italy
Dance:-
Scale:-
Collector:Dhionissopoulos Nikos, Liavas Lambros
Recording Place:Corigliano, Salento
Recording Date:01/04/1981
Recording Responsible:Dionyssopoulos Nikos - Liavas Lambros
Duration:5:26
Other characteristics:Performed by natives
Register Information
Register date:18/12/1995
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:The content of the verses does not refer only to the 'polemo' (=war, work, in the dialect of the Hellenophones of Salento) but extends to other everyday themes as well, such as love, emigration etc.
Storage media:The Hellenic musical tradition in South Italy (LP 151)
Artists/Instruments
Villagers' group from Corigliano:Choir
Costa Luigi:Singer
Anonymous:Harmonica (Chromatic accordion originated in Asia Minor)
Anonymous:Tamborello (Tambourine)
Anonymous:Koupa-koupa
Mele Giovanni:Singer

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