What happens when Italian cuisine and wine are paired with
global African music and served in a Medieval piazza in central
Italy populated by local people, tourists, and migrants from
the Global South? “Umbria Jazz Feast” is a research
project that investigates multisensorial intersections during
the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy. It
presents a new look at this festival by addressing the
question: how is jazz perceived as part of a new global
identity intersecting with local and global cuisine, art, and
culture?
There will be a special screening of Umbria Jazz
Feast, a documentary
film,directed by Alberto Guerri (Centro
Sperimentale di Cinematografia / National Film School, Rome,
Italy) and Department of Music Professor Pierpaolo
Polzonetti on Wednesday, May 6 at 6:30 p.m. in 1002 Cruess
Hall.
The screening is presented by Polzonetti and the Department of
French and Italian and co-sponsored by Global Affairs, Davis
Humanities Institute and the Departments of Music and
Cinema and Digital Media.
Free
Umbria Jazz Feast is made possible by the generous support of
the Eivind G. Lange (‘77) and Mary G. Puma Engagement and
Research in Italy Fund. At UC Davis, additional support was
given by a Seed Grant for International Activities from Global
Affairs as well as the College of Letters and Science and the
Department of Music.
featuring Mestre Cabello and Jorge
Alabê
with the UC Davis Brazilian Capoeira Ensemble
directed by Juan Diego Díaz, with guests
Mestre Cabello is an experienced master of
Capoeira Angola and disciple of the great Mestre João Grande,
ethnomusicologist Emilia Biancardi and master drummer Jorge
Alabé. Originally from Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil, Mestre
Cabello has dedicated the last 20 of his 40 years in the art to
cultivating Capoeira Angola in Serra Grande, Brazil and around
the world. He casts an attentive and respectful look at the codes
and the rich repository of musicality, tuning, ritual and
movement left by the old masters from the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s
via audio recordings, texts, photos and drawings. Seen through
these lenses, the study of Afro-Brazilian culture is of vital
importance to the recognition, understanding and appreciation of
a complete capoeirista. Mestre Cabello approaches Capoeira Angola
as a sustainable and nourishing practice for our whole selves:
body, mind and spirit.
