Marcello

Piras Italy lecture tour March-May 2013 Siena, March 11-25. Lecture cycle, Signs of the trade. Fingerprints of the African presence in music history. March 11. Old and new Negroes: The Mediterranean in the 16th century. March 14. Conquest and conversion: The Americas in the 17th century. March 18. The dumb servant: Slaves in Baroque Europe. March 21. Enlightenment and dark people: Slavery in the 18th-century Western world. March 25. Uncle Toms Risorgimento: 19th century and the Negro question. Fiesso d'Artico, March 12-25. Jazznostop 2013. Lecture cycle, 10, 100, 1000 years of jazz. March 12. The Dark Neighbor: Thousand years of jazz. Roseto degli Abruzzi, March 27-30. Master class for music teachers: Teaching music in the Afrocentric perspective. Global history, new repertoires. Brain layers and progressive goals. Ecstasy and trance: Historical routes, cultural choices World music history in the Afrocentric perspective Repertoire extension in the Afrocentric perspective Methodology problems Fermo, Conservatory, April 4. Conference, Miles Davis and the rubber band. Rome, April 12-26. Lecture cycle, Frontiers 2013. Five black composers. April 12. Scott Joplin, politics and ethics April 16. Jos Mauricio and interior design April 19. Duke Ellington and ethnology April 23. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and psychoanalysis April 26. George Russell and Kabbalah Rieti, April 13. Bruto Giannini: Composer and Garibaldi veteran, from Sabina to Harlem. Piacenza, Conservatory, April 20. The lost history of jazz. The five deleted centuries: 1400-1900. Piacenza, Jazz Club, April 21. Yankee Middle Ages: Frank Zappa vs. Henry VIII. Rome, 23-27 April. Master class on performance practice, Afro-American piano literature (with Alessandro Bonanno). Turin, April 28. From whence did the U.S.A. received jazz? Adria, Conservatory, 2-4 May. Master class, The musical history of the Americas and jazz. Evolution and analysis of five centuries of music. Matera, Conservatory, 6-8 May. Master class, Duke Ellington: Preaching using riddles. Monopoli, Conservatory, 9-11 May. The musical history of the Americas and jazz. Evolution and analysis of five centuries of music. Noci, 13-16 May. Master class for music teachers: Teaching music in the Afrocentric perspective. Global history, new repertoires. (Same as Roseto).