Africa-Press – Cape verde. Cape Verde will be highlighted at the “World Anthropology Day”, in Milan, Italy, on the 18th of February, where a “dialogue” will take place on Cape Verdean music, identity and culture, in the Brera neighbourhood, in the room “ Via del Carmine” number 10, from 4 pm. On the occasion, the film “Manuel de Novas – Coração de Poeta” will be shown, a premiere in this country with a strong Cape Verdean community.
The importance of music in Cape Verdean culture and identity will thus be highlighted in this event entitled “O Mar Molha Milán”, an initiative of Associação Casa de Cabo Verde – Milan, in collaboration with Iulm Universidade, inserted in the scope of the World Anthropology Day – Public Anthropology in Milan, and Consolado de Cape Verde, in that city.
Music for Cape Verde, recalls the organization, is fundamental. “You can play, sing and dance everywhere”, being intrinsic to the identity.
“In the world, many know Cesária Évora, much less the islands in the middle of the Atlantic. As for many peoples, music is synonymous with freedom, freeing oneself from slavery. And then there are the notes from the heart, from the heart of a poet, the themes of nostalgia and return, dear to the diaspora”, they recall.
Especially if we take into account that “Cape Verdean expatriates” are three times the local population, “united” by the morna and many other traditional songs that “maintain and reinforce the feeling of belonging to their land even in the second and third generations”.
Program
According to the organization, from 16:00 to 18:00 there will be a screening, for the premiere in Italy, of the film “Manuel de Novas – Coração de Poeta”, dedicated to one of the most important composers of the archipelago, directed by Cape Verdean director Neu Lopes.
Afterwards, there is a dialogue-debate with anthropologists, scholars and enthusiasts of Cape Verdean culture, connected abroad, on the relationship between music, identity processes and cultural transformations.
Among the speakers is Giacomo Pozzi (anthropologist, Department of Humanities, IULM University) and Marco António Ribeiro Vieira Lima (anthropologist and musician) who will dialogue with director Neu Lopes.
Also participating are Alberto Zeppieri, record producer, and Livio Fania, illustrator, architect, musician, author of the book “The Path of Drops – Illustrated Journey to Cape Verde”.
At the end there will be live music with the traditional “cavaquinho” and “playlists” that will send participants to the “Sodade” of the islands, in addition to tasting Cape Verdean flavors, such as chicken soup, a typical dish of the festivals.
World Anthropology Day, what is it?
The World Anthropology Day – Public Anthropology, is a three-day event between Milan and Turin, on different topics, with a total of 80 initiatives.
This is an initiative of the “American Anthropological Association” to celebrate and make known anthropology that has been taking place since 2019, also in Milan, with a series of public events aimed at making “visible and recognizable” the daily work of anthropologists, in dialogue with institutions, the tertiary sector, companies, thus reaching a wide audience and diverse territories.
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