Description du projet
La documentation de duels entre poètes dans la région méditerranéenne
Pendant des siècles, les artistes locaux méditerranéens divertissaient leurs communautés en se livrant à des duels de poésie organisés lors de festivals locaux ou lors d’occasions spéciales. Leurs performances orales impromptues sont souvent associées à des spectacles et à de la musique. Dans certaines îles méditerranéennes, cette tradition s’éteint peu à peu. Le projet DUEL, financé par l’UE, soutiendra une étude comparative de duels de poésie dans six îles méditerranéennes: la Corse, la Crète, Chypre, Majorque, Malte et la Sardaigne. Cette recherche interdisciplinaire contribuera à présenter des aspects notamment poétiques, musicaux et ethnographiques de cette tradition sous la forme d’un livre, d’un documentaire et de festivals pour préserver l’esprit et la beauté de cet héritage historique local.
Objectif
DUEL is the first comparative study of poetic duelling across the Mediterranean. It focuses on six islands found in six Mediterranean European countries, moving from East to West: Cyprus, Crete (Greece), Malta, Sardinia (Italy), Corsica (France), and Majorca (Spain). At the heart of DUEL are two central questions: How are poetic duels performed, and what do they mean for both the producers (the performers) and the consumers (the audience) of this practice in the six chosen islands? Rather than looking at poetry or music in isolation, DUEL brings the poetic, musical, ethnographic, gender and performative aspects of this practice together in a ‘bottom-up’ study that puts the people involved in poetic duelling centre stage. Using an interdisciplinary approach and combining methods from ethnomusicology, life writing, visual anthropology, oral and cultural history, DUEL aims to bring performers from the six islands together on the page (in a book), on the screen (in an ethnographic documentary), and on the stage (in a festival). While the project is informed by theory, it is not side-tracked by it. The emphasis is on creating a vivid portrait of this performance practice (written, visual, and aural) that can have the greatest possible impact on academic and non-academic audiences alike. This is in line with the EU’s policy for making culture ‘accessible and inclusive’. There is a sense of urgency attached to this project, as it concerns a dying tradition practised among groups of performers across Europe who are also fast disappearing. In addition to interviewing performers through extended periods of fieldwork and recording poetic duelling performances in their particular social and cultural contexts, this project will also contribute to the understanding and preservation of European intangible heritage, against an increasing trend of homogenisation of both the production and the consumption of culture.
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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinateur
1678 Nicosia
Chypre