“Umbria Jazz Feast,” a Documentary Film

Umbria Jazz Feast — a Documentary Film PREMIERE
Directed by Alberto Guerri (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia / National Film School, Rome, Italy) and
Professor Pierpaolo Polzonetti (UC Davis)

About the “Umbria Jazz Feast”:
The purpose of this study is to document the cross-fertilization of global African-rooted American music and Italian art and cuisine, as experienced by people of different backgrounds and from different countries. The study will focus on the trans-cultural process of global cross-fertilization defined by Fabienne Darling-Wolf as ‘glocamalgamation’. The primary outcome will be the production of a documentary film with videographer Alberto Guerri of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. The academic part of the project will be developed in collaboration with ethnomusicologists Marco Lutzu (University of Cagliari) and Giovanni Giuriati (University of Rome La Sapienza and Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies IISMC of the Cini Foundation of Venice).