Aniello Santi and David De Santi interviewed by Peter Parkhill for the Voices from the Illawarra collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1038322
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- De Santi, Aniello, 1930-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewees.
- Description:
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- 1997
- 5 sound tape reels (ca. 158 min.): analog, 7 1/2 ips, full track mono.
- Series:
- Voices from the Illawarra collection.
- Summary:
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Folk recording. Aniello DeSanti with David DeSanti talks about emigrating from Campania, Italy (1955) to Australia; cutting cane in North Queensland; how he began to play music at eight years old; family background; brass bands; festivals; band instruments and repertoire; folk instruments from the region, zampogna, organetta, fisarmonica, and flutes; music played on special social occasions, popular songs and dance tunes; traditional song, stornelli and tarantella; his schooling; WWII experiences; Resistance movements; war songs; political songs; communist songs; the symbolic use of melodies; Gypsies; markets, donkey sellers; Gypsy music and dances; joining a Brass band at age 14, playing trombone; learning the piano accordion in Australia; learning to read music; arriving in Australia, aged 24; the reasons why he chose Australia; sailing on the 'Roma', owned by Flotta Lauro (1955); life in a migrant hostel in Fremantle; travels to Innisfail, Qld., starts cane cutting; wages; accidents cane cutting, compensation; dances, band with guitar, mandolin, bass and violin; unions; church on Sunday; his move to Port Kembla, N.S.W.; accommodation; steelworks, working in the yard (1956); working night and day; his job with State Rail Mechanical Branch; trip to Italy, 1960-61, returning with his wife; his house in Port Kembla, arrangement with bank; Port Kembla during the 1950s-1960s; Italian dances and films; tensions between Anglo Australians and Italians; home made wine, making prosciutto and salami; Italian radio program; the Italian community; assimilation and discrimination at work; bosses; playing music in Australia; buying his first accordion in Port Kembla from Italian worker; Italian musicians in Port Kembla; starts playing accordion in 1970s (self taught), Italian parties; popular music (Canto popolare); folk musicians.
- Partial contents:
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- Plays the piano accordion: tarantella, 'La Luna'
- waltzes (unidentified)
- mazurkas (unidentified)
- waltz (unidentified)
- zambogna melodies
- waltz (classical melody)
- explanation of phrasing
- tarantella, popular melody
- explanation and discussion
- tarantella
- a discussion on key changes, modes, instruments
- tarantellas with tambourine
- tarantella (begins with popular melody), variations
- other melodies (final melody in minor key).
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Jan. 1997.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Folk musicians
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1997
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