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The Tarantella Music coming from the Tarantism in South Italy in this video the group of Stella Grande Anime Bianche executes a typical Tarantella called Pizzica Pizzica in Salento, the Italian dancer performances a TARANTISM DANCE (see explanation below) to maintain the Salento Tarantella tradition alive. Stella Grande performances a great live concert in a very small Sagra (Italian traditional party) of the Olive Oil in Melendugno http://www.italianbusinessguide.com/

TARANTELLA HISTORY - TARANTATA - NOTTE DELLA TARANTA 2010 MELPIGNANO
During ancient times in the area around the Greek colony of Taranta in southern Italy (mainly in Salento), a type of poisonous spider was so prevalent that it took the name Lycosa tarantula. Its venom caused a hysterical condition known as Tarantism, the symptoms of which were an irresistible need for a wild and rapid whirling motion bringing the victim to the point of exhaustion, also known as Tarantulism. For long time, the local population believed that the only way to suppress the symptoms and to cure the bite was by using a very rhythmic and fast music.
The music played for the cure became known as TARANTELLA. The older documents mentioning the relationship between MUSICAL EXORCISM for the Tarantella are dated around 1100. The tradition is still very present in the area, and is known as "Neo-Tarantism. Many artists in Naples (Napoli) and Salento (Lecce), groups and famous musicians are continuing keeping the tradition alive. The music is very different, but has similar hypnotic effects, especially when people are exposed to the rhythm for a long period of time. The music is used in the therapy of patients with certain forms of depression and hysteria, and its effects on the endocrine system recently became an object of research

TARANTISM IN SOUTH OF ITALY
Tarantism is an alleged, possibly deadly envenomation, popularly believed to result from the bite of a kind of wolf spider called a "tarantula" (tarantola). (These spiders are different from the broad class of spiders called "Tarantulas".) The condition was common in southern Italy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There were strong suggestions that there is no organic cause for the heightened excitability and restlessness that gripped the victims. The stated belief of the time was that victims needed to engage in frenzied dancing to prevent death from tarantism. Supposedly a particular kind of dance, called the tarantella, evolved from this therapy. "The dancing is placed under the sign of Saint Paul, whose chapel serves as a "theater" for the tarantulees' public meetings. The spider seems constantly interchangeable with Saint Paul; the female tarantulees dress as "brides of Saint Paul" (Santo Paolo) As a climax, "the tarantulees, after having danced for a long time, meet together in the chapel of Saint Paul and communally attain the paroxysm of their trance, ... "... the general and desperate agitation was dominated by the stylized cry of the tarantulees, the 'crisis cry', an ahiii uttered with various modulations
ITALIAN MUSIC AT Notte della Taranta 2010 - The real tarantella music of Italy
il Festival di pizzica Salentina La Notte della Taranta dal 13 fino al concertone finale di Melpignano 28 Agosto 2010. In questo periodo nella Grecia del Salento ci sono molte sagre con concerti di Pizzica Pizzica, Tarantella e World Music nelle piazze dei Comuni della Grecìa Salentina (Calimera, Carpignano Salentino, Castrignano dei Greci, Corigliano d'Otranto, Cutrofiano, Martano, Martignano, Soleto, Zollino), di Alessano, Galatina, Cursi in Provincia di Lecce.
Durante il Festival 2010 della Notte della Taranta ci sono gruppi di pizzica ed ospiti di world music come Robba de Smuju (Pizzica), Uccio Aloisi, Alla Bua (Pizzica), Antonio Castrignano (Pizzica), Ri Briganti Band (Tarantella), Epifani Barbers, Asteria, Salentorkestra, Zimbaria, Enza Pagliara (pizzica), Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, Ariantica, Daniele Durante, Stella Grande e le Anime Bianche, CantoAntico, Tamburellisti di Torrepaduli, Triace, Kalàscima ospite Raffaello Simeoni, Antonio Amato Ensemble, AriaFrisca, Mascarimirì, La Banda Wagliò, Madreterra, Mimmo Cavallaro TaranProject, KamaFei, Briganti di Terra d'Otranto, Mario Incudine e il Gruppo Terra Bandadriatica, Sciacuddhuzzi, Menamenamò ospite Carlo Canaglia, Arakne Mediterranea, Alla Bua, Taranta Social Club, Ariacorte, Officina Zoè http://www.usamanufacturingguide.com/