Masters of Folk Culture®


The project Masters of Folk Culture is an effort to expand international recognition of festivals, rituals, and performances which represent the expression of that inseparable value of an area's history.

These witnesses know how to defend the lifeblood of every community with pride. They also know how to pass it on to new generations with modern influences that arise from continuity with the past.

They didn’t bow to the ever increasing pace imposed by a modernity that overwhelms feelings, beauty, relationships, stories, and people: they continue to cultivate these fundamental values ​​of life, offering them to us with conviction, dignity and pride.

Today, their activity should be protected so that these living witnesses and survivors become individuals capable of transferring their living witness to younger generations, as representatives of their various cultures.

The Masters are called to perform are the Itinerant Chairs of Folk Culture, which transform them in teachers of lessons to share tradition and feed new prospects for the future.

The basic requirements of a Master of Folk Culture® are:

1. Presence of a genuine link with the territory that expresses his own tradition, a link based on:

  •  Memory
  •  Tradition
  •  Continuity
  •  Ability in re-produce this heritage;

2. Ability to express the folk culture of an area in these fields:

  •  art and performative art
  •  demo-ethno-anthropology
  •  handcraft production;

3. Ability to trace these actions and rituals historically;

4. Willingness to transfer the witness of his knowledge to the younger generations, so that the tradition can be transmitted and renewed with respect and consistency.

The evaluation of the applications to become Masters is part of the Italian Network of Folk Culture’s task, following the consultation of its Scientific Committee.

CANDIDATE HERE A MASTER OF YOUR TERRITORY

 

 MASTERS OF FOLK CULTURE® 2012:

 Jona

EMILIO JONA

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 Licci

ROBERTO LICCI

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 Guidetti

DARIO GUIDETTI

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 Maria Petrone

MARIA PETRONE

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Ada-Zanier

 ADA BOTTERO ZANIER

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Pippina-Guida

PIPPINA GUIDA

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Enrico-StalliviereENRICO STALLIVIERE

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Luigi-Di-GianniLUIGI DI GIANNI

 

 

 

 

Nzammaruchle Biccari FG-181x181THE 'NZAMMARUCHELE

Subappennino Dauano

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Pier Franco Causone Maglione TO-171x171PIER FRANCO CAUSONE

Traditional game - Canavese

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Ferdinando Busca Nomaglio TO 1-171x179FERDINANDO BUSCA

Traditional game - Canavese

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Poesia a Braccio Maremma GR 2 F BENELLI-170x170IMPROVIDES POETRY (POESIA A BRACCIO)

Maremma

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Canto a Tenore Sardegna-169x169CANTO A TENORE

Sardegna

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chitarra battente cosentina CS-165x165

CHITARRA BATTENTE

Cosentino 

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MariaRosaria Cianfagna Pezzetti CB-170x176

MARIAROSARIA CIANFAGNA

Food & Wine, Crafts

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Nicola-Caprara-Pezzetti CB-2-170x170NICOLA CAPRARA "NICOL D 'CROC" 

Food & Wine, Crafts

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Marini Testimone

 GIOVANNA MARINI

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Cugini-Nigro TestimoneNIGRO COUSINS, GIUSEPPE AND LUIGI

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Seeger Testimone PETE SEEGER

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Farassino TestimoneGIPO FARASSINO

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Anghilante Testimone

MASINO ANGHILANTE

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Guerra Testimone TONINO GUERRA

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Turi Grasso TestimoneOPERA OF THE SICILIAN PUPPETS

by TURI GRASSO

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Cantori Carpino Testimone

 MASTER SINGERS OF CARPINO

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Aloisi Testimone UCCIO ALOISI

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Poeti Testimone IMPROVISED POETRY - RIETI

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Antonio-Adriano Magliano-Alfieri TestimoneANTONIO ADRIANO

AND THE SPONTANEOUS GROUP OF MAGLIANO ALFIERI

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Coro-Bajolese TestimoneCORO BAJOLESE

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AMATEUR - SPECIAL AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION

TO RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION ON FOLK CULTURE

The special award identifies those individuals, organizations and associations engaged in research and encouraging the territories to operate as a network, contributing to the Participated Archive and to the idea of ​​developing the local culture as a common good.

 

La Leggera Campibisenzio FI-186x186LA LEGGERA CULTURAL ASSOCIATION

CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION ON ORAL CULTURE

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Corrado-Barontini-GR-185x185CORRADO BARONTINI

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C Augusto e G Pessa Candelo BI-182x182 copia copiaCESARE AUGUSTO

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C Augusto e G Pessa Candelo BI-182x182 copia copia copiaGIANCARLO PESSA

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antonio-curto NOVOLI-189x189ANTONIO SANTO CURTO

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Domenico Durando Piobesi TO-195x195

DOMENICO DURANDO

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® Masters of Folk Culture is a REGISTERED TRADEMARK