Alla Boara wants to preserve Italy's traditional music. The Cleveland-based group is traveling around the country, offering a modern arrangement of some near-extinct folk songs. It recently added a ...

When Italian emigres Francesco and Giuseppina DeSalvo Sciortino and Luigi and Mariacivita Scarpalino Minerella made their way to the New World in the early 1900s, they could not have envisioned that ...

As co-music director for the Boston-based folk group Newpoli, Carmen Marsico is often confronted with misconceptions about traditional Italian music. "People think folk music from Italy is made up of ...

When Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi began considering what songs to perform at the many home livestreams they played during the early days of 2020 lockdown, they started coming up with songs ...

University of Technology Sydney provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Prolific composer Ennio Morricone has died in Rome at the age of 91. From his origins in Italian radio, ...