Mauro Campagnoli
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Mauro Campagnoli (born in Turin, 1975), is an Italian anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and composer.
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Biography
Anthropological and ethnomusicological fieldwork
Graduated in Cultural Anthropology from Turin University. He conducts anthropological and ethnomusicological research in Africa: after having studied the music of some Bantu populations of Western Cameroon, he conducted several fieldworks in the Cameroonian rain forest among various groups of Pygmies, like the Baka Pygmies, studying in particular their music, dances, language and rites of initiations. In 2000, during a research mission, he took part into the secret rite of men's initiation to the "Spirit of the Forest", becoming a member of a baka patrilinear clan. During the next years he continued his fieldwork among this pygmy group, and also went among BaKola Pygmies and Bedzan Pygmies in an other area of the rainforest, studying their traditional music and dances.
Musical activity
He got two diplomas in Composition and Choral Music & Choir Conducting at Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of music, in Turin. He won national and international composition contests and he followed training courses coordinated by important European contemporary composers, such as Emmanuel Nunes, Gérard Grisey and Ennio Morricone at the Chigiana Academy of Siena. In relation to his ethnomusicological researches, he composed the multimedia work "Yelì - The voice of the Forest", played at the "Piccolo Teatro" of Milan during the international world music festival called "Festa della Musica", in 2001. He collaborated with RAI Italian Television Network as soundtrack composer for documentaries. He also took part into the Italian tour of an Aka Pygmy group from Central African Republic as a cultural mediator and ethnomusicologist.
Works
Essays
Musical works
- Huehuetenango, for electric jazz ensemble, 1995
- Eclisse, for poems by Libero de Libero from "Eclisse" (1936-1938), for mezzosoprano and piano, 1996
- Metropolis, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and triangle, 1997
- Five dreams from Toyland, for clarinet, trumpet and piano, 1997
- Farenheit, for flute, viola e harp, 1998
- Shesade, three sonnets from the Canzoniere (Lyrics) of Cecco Angiolieri (1260-1310), for mezzosoprano, flute, oboe, violin, cello and piano, 2000
- Yelì – The voice of the Forest, multimedia work in 16 parts for flute, violin, cello, piano, electric bass, percussions, "ndumu" pygmy drum, voice and digital elaborations of fieldwork recordings made in the rainforest of Cameroon. Video scenography by Alessandro Amaducci, 2001
See also
Research fields:
Other researchers who studied pygmy cultures:
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External links
- Mauro Campagnoli official website Contains his fieldworks in Equatorial Africa
- Baka Pygmies Culture, music and photosca:Mauro Campagnoli
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