Re: "Santa Lucia"

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Probably ignorant question, but are recordings of "Santa Lucia" plentiful?  
Any suggestions of fine ones?  (I'd just like to learn/know the melody 
that's been borrowed.)

--Robert Cohen


>
>Anything they borrow is "integrated"; once it's there, it's not "exotic"
>or "foreign"; if it's sung twice, it's "traditional"!
>
> > Are there other examples of similar transmigrations of Ashkenazi 
> >melodies to
> > the north of Morocco?
>Yes, but there are migrations of all kinds of melodies, I don't think
>they're particularly concerned with whether a borrowed melody is Jewish,
>Moroccan Arabic, or, for example, one popular tune, "Santa Lucia".


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