{"product_id":"ritual-rapture-and-remorse-a-study-of-tarantism-and-pizzica-in-salento-9783039110926","title":"Ritual, Rapture and Remorse: A Study of Tarantism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book was awarded a Special Mention Citation in the 2010 competition for the ‘de la Torre Bueno Prize’ by The Society of Dance History Scholars.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the region of Salento in Southern Italy, the music and dance of the \u003ci\u003epizzica\u003c\/i\u003e has been used in the ritual of tarantism for many centuries as a means to cure someone bitten by the \u003ci\u003etaranta\u003c\/i\u003e spider. This book, a historical and ethnographic study of tarantism and \u003ci\u003epizzica\u003c\/i\u003e, draws upon seven hundred years of writings about the ritual contributed by medical practitioners, scientists, travel writers and others. It also investigates the contemporary revival of interest in \u003ci\u003epizzica\u003c\/i\u003e music and dance as part of the ‘neo-tarantism’ movement, where \u003ci\u003epizzica\u003c\/i\u003e and the history of tarantism form a complex web of place, culture and identity for Salentines today.\u003cbr\u003e This is one of the first books in English to explore this fascinating ritual practice and its contemporary resurgence. It uses an interdisciplinary framework based in performance studies to ask wider questions about the experience of the body in performance, and the potential of music and dance to create a sense of personal and collective transformation and efficacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Embodying Pasts and Presence – Whose History Is It? Examining the Historical Records of Tarantism – Remorse, Transformation and \u003ci\u003eScazzicare\u003c\/i\u003e: De Martino Revisited – Revivals, Roots and Raves: the Performance of \u003ci\u003ePizzica \u003c\/i\u003ein Contemporary Salento.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043728916823,"sku":"9783039110926","price":53.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783039110926.jpg?v=1750959255","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ritual-rapture-and-remorse-a-study-of-tarantism-and-pizzica-in-salento-9783039110926","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}