Folk music from southern Italy

Some note on folk music from the south of Italy

From naples to the south " 'A città 'e Pulecenella " (Pulcinella http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulcinella is mask of naples in the "commedia dell'arte", always hungry and unluky)

The "canto dei sanfedisti", the hymn of a neapolitan popular uprising against the french during Napoleon. Compare it with the Marseillaise and you understand why they couldn't have any chance.

The "tarantella" you may have heard it in some movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-xsosv6uM0. Tarantella http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantella is a pretty ancient music spread in the areas of greek colonisation in the southern Italy, linked somehow with the cult of Dyonisus, Artemis or whatever other drunken, orgy-goer greek god. We have also tarantella from Sicily http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNwC8eZ7brE and Calabria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww6QW3ye-Nk

Special section on the tarantella (or taranta or pizzica) of Puglia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQkXUausnv8 and Salento (the heel of the boot), the one which i prefere and the one more exploited also commercially, with groups, videos and even a yearly concerte broadcasted in TV and radio (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmAwqOMhTek, it's 7 hours, you are not supposed to actually look at the video). Examples are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i4xiIi3tAY, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qy6iDmYPT4 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jryWN38HfQ (this is a song from 1500, a little different from the others), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVB_QAtgwI.
The fundamental thing about these "tarantellas" is that they were used to "heal" women biten by the tarantula (read: depressed, with mental breakdown) by making them to dance for hours and days until they collapsed, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqDjqiCnV80.