Their style was mainly influenced by East Coast rap, while newer crews include politically-oriented crews like 99 Posse (influenced by British trip hop) and gangsta rap groups like Sardinia's Sa Razza and La Fossa.
In the 1950s, American Alan Lomax and Italians DiegoCarpitella, Franco Coggiola and Roberto Leydi recorded many regional traditions in folk music.
Carpitella later worked with Ernesto de Martino to study the magical aspects of Italian music, especially the tarantolati.
From the summer of 1954 to January 1955 Alan Lomax and ethnomusicologist DiegoCarpitella undertook a period of intensive fieldwork in Italy.
Songs of love and war, marriage and jail, emigration and alms seeking, ballads and sung debates, dances performed by accordions, tambourine, and brass band: this CD includes a generous selection of historic and sometimes astonishing original field recordings from Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta in northeastern Italy, made almost 50 years ago.
Alan Lomax and DiegoCarpitella's historic 1954 recordings from Lombardy run the gamut of folk styles and traditions - from jovial wedding and carnival songs to characteristic Italian choral renderings of classic Child Ballads, the enchanting calls of songbird hunters, and a panpipe orchestra playing marches, waltzes, and the overture to Verdi's Rigoletto.
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