Centro Nazionale Studi di Musica Popolare

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Music of Italy
Genres:	Classical: Opera Pop: Rock (Hardcore) - Hip hop - Folk - jazz - Progressive rock
History and Timeline
Awards	Italian Music Awards
Charts	Federation of the Italian Music Industry
Festivals	Sanremo Festival - Umbria Jazz Festival - Ravello Festival - Festival dei Due Mondi - Festivalbar
Media	Music media in Italy
National anthem	Il Canto degli Italiani
Regional scenes
Aosta Valley - Abruzzo - Basilicata - Calabria - Campania - Emilia-Romagna - Florence - Friuli-Venezia Giulia - Genoa - Latium - Liguria - Lombardy - Marche - Milan - Molise - Naples - Piedmont - Puglia - Rome - Sardinia - Sicily - Trentino-South Tyrol - Tuscany - Umbria - Veneto - Venice
Related topics
Opera houses - Music conservatories - Terminology

The Centro Nazionale Studi di Musica Popolare (CNSMP) (Italian: National Centre for Folk Music Studies) is the most important scholarly organization of its kind in Italy. It is housed on the premises of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. The CNSMP was founded in 1948 by Giorgio Nataletti. Currently the Archives of Ethnomsicology, contain over 11.000 recordings of traditional music, including about 7.000 documents of Italian folk music. Special attention is devoted to the Central and Southern regions—including Sicily and Sardinia—and to liturgical chants of the Mediterranean. The collections include the research of Alan Lomax and Diego Carpitella, hundreds of documents recorded in 1954-55, as well as the results of the research of Ernesto De Martino and Carpitella in Southern Italy. Along with classification of its materials (which, since 1996, has included Leo Levi's collection of Hebrew liturgical music), the Archive has issued a journal since 1993 entitled "EM Rivista degli Archivi di Etnomusicologia dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia" which is currently published by Squilibri, Rome.