Today, Friday 24 May, at 6.30 pm, in the Franciscan culture hall of the Parish of S. Caterinaa meeting with the writer and journalist is scheduled Angelo Angelastroauthor, together with Pierpaolo De Giorgi, of the book “The latest tarantate”, published by Leave of absence of Galatina in 2022: today’s event, after the institutional greeting from President Mario Graziuso, will be introduced by Councilor Rosa Anna Valletta.
The Congedo publisher’s catalog allows us to reconstruct the genesis of our guest’s text.
“In the summer of 2017 Pierpaolo De Giorgi participate, together with the group “The Tambourine Players of Torrepaduli“, to one of the most beautiful cultural programs on television, the column “People” of Rai 1, created and directed by the editor-in-chief of Tg1 Angelo Angelastro.
During filming, between pinch fencing and a performance of frame drums, Angelastro confides to De Giorgi to preserve numerous photos of tarantate taken by him during a television report back in 1978. The black and white images were “captured” during the public ceremony near the famous Galatina chapel, from behind a grate that hid the photographer and his reflex camera as much as possible. They capture excited moments during which the tarantate assume revealing attitudes and poses of great symbolic value. De Giorgi proposes to accompany them with a writing that unravels the tangle of tarantism and brings to light some aspects that had never previously been discussed. In particular, the scholar intends to show how tarantism is a resource traditionally managed by the women of the family, and not an illusory therapeutic rite that reveals the “landslides of the psyche” of female people who are victims of oppression and erotic exclusion. It doesn’t take long and he gets involved Mario Congedothe publisher of Galatina who, more than anyone else in Italy, showed sensitivity for the extravagant events of the musical and dance ritual that took place in the tarantate chapel.”
Thus was born an agile, informative volume, without giving in to easy and erroneous reconstructions of one of the most interesting traditional phenomena of the entire Mediterranean.
Angelo Angelastroa journalist with Rai since 1977, has followed cultural and entertainment events in Italy and abroad, giving voice to the great protagonists of music, literature, cinema, theater and dance.
He has edited numerous specials and created the columns “Tg1 Meetings” And “Tg1 People“, programs in which men and women tell, through their lives, the main themes of our time.
In 2013 he published My worlds, Bolis edizioni, with a comment by Gianni Berengo Gardin on photojournalism. It comes out, however, in 2015 The beautiful weather in Tripoli for Edizioni E/O, a novel that addresses a central and still obscure chapter in the history of Italy: our colonial past. The first-hand interview of a reporter, the author, with a fascist hierarch of the time becomes the basis for the novel of a true life, lived on the brink of the century.
