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- noun music A popular traditional
dance ofItaly , originating on theSalento peninsula
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Examples
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A forgotten brand of homegrown folk music known as the pizzica has turned the Italian region of Puglia into one of the most fashionable summer festival destinations in Europe.
Record numbers flock to Puglia festival to dance to Italy's dervish beat
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Much of the material the group performs is intended for a traditional courtship dance from the region called the pizzica, or, sometimes, the taranta.
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Taranta music, also known as pizzica, is the hot sound sweeping across Italy and this music is real deal.
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When Copeland met the last of the great old pizzica players, Uccio Aloisi, they created a spark that was new but also traditional," said Blasi."
Record numbers flock to Puglia festival to dance to Italy's dervish beat
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Copeland said pizzica was thriving because no one considered it an old man's folk music.
Record numbers flock to Puglia festival to dance to Italy's dervish beat
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The rhythm is distinctive and the melodies are like nursery rhymes – singable and really effective," said Copeland, who now tours Europe every summer with an Italian pizzica group."
Record numbers flock to Puglia festival to dance to Italy's dervish beat
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Metallica could play it and it would still be pizzica.
Record numbers flock to Puglia festival to dance to Italy's dervish beat
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The resurgence of pizzica has matched Puglia's rise as a magnet for filmmakers and the hot holiday destination for Italy's cultural elite, not to mention a hang-out for celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Willem Dafoe – who had pizzica tunes played at his wedding in Puglia – and Helen Mirren, who has bought one of the elegant old masserie, or farmhouses, dotting the fertile landscape between stunning towns such as Ostuni and Gallipoli.
Record numbers flock to Puglia festival to dance to Italy's dervish beat
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The only fear for organisers now is that the pizzica phenomenon will outgrow the small town piazzas that nourished it and lose its cultish charm.
Record numbers flock to Puglia festival to dance to Italy's dervish beat
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This year's pizzica festival attracted nearly 200,000 revellers to Puglia.
Record numbers flock to Puglia festival to dance to Italy's dervish beat
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