Leonardo D'Amico – ethnomusicologist

Co-founder and Chair of the ICTMD Study Group on Audiovisual Ethnomusicology

Latest publications:

Audiovisual Ethnomusicology. Filming musical cultures by Leonardo D’Amico. Bern: Peter Lang, 2020.

“Audiovisual Ethnomusicology is a revelation, an inspiration and an important new story about what ethnomusicologists do and therefore what ethnomusicology is” – Timothy Rice (Preface of the book)

“Audiovisual Ethnomusicology is an encyclopedic compendium of films and film related scholarship published in the English language. This engaging work is the only current book on the market that encapsulates this scene and will thus be valuable to anyone interested in the visual aspects of musical performance practice and the utility of film as a medium of presentation and research in ethnomusicology” – Frank Gunderson (Yearbook of Traditional Music, 2023)

“This surely is a matter of academic identification to a considerable degree. For the representatives of the dominant Anglo-American anthropological variant of ethnomusicology, D’Amico’s treatment provides an affirmation of their disciplinary identity. For many others, Audiovisual Ethnomusicology presents itself as a valuable encyclopedia into the world offilmed musical cultures, as it were” – Antti-Ville Kärjä (Ethnomusicology Forum, 2021)

“BULANG MUSIC. From the Mountains to the Stars”.

A documentary film by Leonardo D’Amico. Shot by Leonardo D’Amico and Zhang Hai in Yunnan, China (2023, 42′).

https://bulangmusic.wordpress.com

Performance with Efik musicians, Cuti Aste and Meki Nzewi in Esuk Mba, Nigeria, 2012.

Leonardo D’Amico and Meki Nzewi during fieldwork in Esuk Mba (Nigeria). Excerpt from the documentary “Pasos de Cumbia” (Cumbia Steps) by V. Cavallo, 2012.

“Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”, performed by Yunnan University chamber orchestra created and conducted by Leonardo D’Amico (Kunming, China, 26/06/2017)

Ethnomusicology class at Yunnan University (Kunming, China)

Lecture at University College Cork (Cork, Ireland)

Conference “Roots in Action” (Caserta, 2013)

Drumming masterclass in Xian (China)

Drumming Masterclass in Kunming (China)

**Inlingua International School of Languages, Kunming (China)**

GRIOT. IL MAESTRO DELLA PAROLA

Book by Leonardo D’Amico

Leo & Toumani Diabaté (Festival Musica dei Popoli, Florence, 2007)

“Cantar l’Ottava” (Singing the octave). A documentary by Leonardo D’Amico

Angelo Arribas (gaita) and Leonardo D’Amico (tamboril). Miranda do Douro, Tras-os-Montes, Portugal, 2011. Research project “Musicas tradicionalesy populares de Zamora y Miranda do Douro: Documentacion, estudio, interpretacion”. Principal Investigator: Prof. Enrique Camara (Universidad de Valladolid). Research team: Matias Isolabella, Salvatore Rossano and Leonardo D’Amico.

My first fieldwork with my wife Diamantina in Colombia. Field research on Afro-Colombian music (Mompox, Colombia, 1996).

Nice memories from the ’80s! Playing “Got a Match?” at the Jazz Club in Florence. Stefano Bollani (piano), Elio Nencioni (bass), Stefano Negri (sax) and Leonardo D’Amico (drums).

Italian Youth Jazz Orchestra (Orchestra Giovanile Italiana di Jazz), Barga Jazz, 1993. Conductor: Bruno Tommaso. On drums: Leonardo D’Amico.

This video was shot in Kunming in 2017 when I was an Adjunct Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Yunnan University. “I Miss Kunming” is a tribute to a city that has remained in my heart and is dedicated to all the wonderful people I have met. A life experience I will never forget.