Rosa Camoriano
Folk songs and dialect
Rosa Camoirano was born in 1931. She was born in Chivasso in Piedmont. She spent her youth in Turin. In 1956 she moved to Lomellina region in Lombardy.
Rosa Camoirano tells her life history, describing Turin during WWII. She remembers the songs that were sung in the taverns and in the houses of the city. In the interview she sings some of these songs that she comments with some memories of her youth and Crova, the village where her grandfather had a farm.
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Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Lombardia
City: Cilavegna
District: PV
Altitude: 115m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilavegna
Attached documents:
Rosa Camoriano
Date of birth: 08-18-1931
City: Chivasso (Torino)
Languages: Italiano, Piemontese
Bibliography:
Savona A.V., Straniero M.L. (1989), Campagnola. Prati, campi, maremme, filari e filande, piazze, aie e risaie, contadini, braccianti e belle molinare nei canti della tradizione popolare italiana, Milano, Mondadori.
Jona E., Liberovici S., Castelli F., Lovatto A. (2008), Le ciminiere non fanno più fumo. Canti e memorie degli operai torinesi, Roma, Donzelli.
Nigra C. (2009), Canti popolari del Piemonte, a cura di Franco Castelli, Emilio Jona e Alberto Lovatto, Torino, Einaudi.
Grimaldi P., Fassino G. (a cura di) (2011), Costantino Nigra etnologo. Le opere e i giorni, Torino, Omega.
Document by: Marco Savini, Gianpaolo Fassino
Video by: Marco Savini
Created: 17-07-2006
