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Audio Recording Interview with Pasquale Sottile and his wife Gilda about musical traditions, and his accordion playing, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

Interview with Pasquale Sottile and his wife Gilda about musical traditions, and his accordion playing, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Pasquale Sottile and his wife Gilda about musical traditions, and his accordion playing, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

Names

  • Mathias, Elizabeth (Collector)
  • Sottile, Pasquale (Interviewee)
  • Sottile, Gilda (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Illinois, May 11, 1977

Headings

  • -  Italian Americans
  • -  Songs
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Music
  • -  Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Songs
  • Interviews
  • Music

Notes

  • -  Pasquale e Gilda Sottile
  • -  Part 1 of a 2-part interview with Pasquale and Gilda Sottile about musical traditions and accordion playing, recorded in their home at the kitchen table; Pasquale Sottile's story about how he came to America; how he learned to play the accordion in Italy, without knowing how to read music, all by ear; plays the accordion, a mazurka, then a polka, then a tarantella; discussion of the dance and of the accordion as an instrument of the farmlands in southern Italy; how playing now makes him remember the beauties of Calabria; about his appearance on an Italian program on television; how people clap when they hear him play; Sottile knows of few traditional Calabrese singers here; he plays a tarantella and sings but the microphone placement means that the accordion drowns out his voice.

Medium

  • audiocassette, C-60

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20728a
  • MBRS Shelflist: RYA 0747
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T204-C

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Mathias, Elizabeth, Pasquale Sottile, and Gilda Sottile. Interview with Pasquale Sottile and his wife Gilda about musical traditions, and his accordion playing, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20728a/.

APA citation style:

Mathias, E., Sottile, P. & Sottile, G. (1977) Interview with Pasquale Sottile and his wife Gilda about musical traditions, and his accordion playing, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20728a/.

MLA citation style:

Mathias, Elizabeth, Pasquale Sottile, and Gilda Sottile. Interview with Pasquale Sottile and his wife Gilda about musical traditions, and his accordion playing, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20728a/>.