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Leo Levi (1912 - Jerusalem, 1982) Italian musicologist
Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture....
 was the first to study the oral musical traditions of Italian Jewry. Grandson of a rabbi, Levi’s attempt to submit a Ph.d thesis at the University of Turin
University of Turin

The University of Turin is a university in the city of Turin in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy. It is considered the 4th most important university in Italy....
 on the music in Italian synagogues was thwarted by the rise to power of Fascism
Fascism

Fascism is a Political radicalism, Authoritarianism Nationalism ideology that aims to create a single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of the nation or Race ....
 and the spread of anti-Semitism in Italy. He was arrested on two occasions during his university studies for subversive activities.






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Leo Levi (1912 - Jerusalem, 1982) Italian musicologist
Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture....
 was the first to study the oral musical traditions of Italian Jewry. Grandson of a rabbi, Levi’s attempt to submit a Ph.d thesis at the University of Turin
University of Turin

The University of Turin is a university in the city of Turin in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy. It is considered the 4th most important university in Italy....
 on the music in Italian synagogues was thwarted by the rise to power of Fascism
Fascism

Fascism is a Political radicalism, Authoritarianism Nationalism ideology that aims to create a single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of the nation or Race ....
 and the spread of anti-Semitism in Italy. He was arrested on two occasions during his university studies for subversive activities. A fervent Zionist, he emigrated to Palestine in 1936. He returned to Italy after WWII and dedicated himself to the study of Italian-Jewish music. He collaborated with the Centro Nazionale Studi di Musica Popolare
Centro Nazionale Studi di Musica Popolare

The Centro Nazionale Studi di Musica Popolare 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....
 at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world.It is located at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Italy, and was founded by the papal bull, Ratione congruit, issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Western musical history: Gregory the Great, for whom t...
in Rome and with other Italian ethnomusicologists
Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology is a branch of musicology defined as "the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts." ...
 working in the field, such as Giorgio Nataletti
Giorgio Nataletti

Giorgio Nataletti Italian Musicology and first director of the Ethnomusicological Archives at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Among other things, he was in charge of a vast project from 1948-72 to record traditional Italian music....
. He was an active part of the project of field recordings done by the RAI
Raï

Ra? is a form of traditional music that originated in Oran, Algeria, and then in Oujda from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Music of Spain, Music of France, African music and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture....
 (the Italian Radio and Television service) to collect and preserve traditional Italian music, the results of which are preserved in the Santa Cecilia archives. He was a research fellow at the Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew university in Israel. Some of his research is available on a 2001 CD entitled Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961); recording number AMTI CD 0102 of the Jewish Music Research Centre and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome. He is also the father of Natan Levi.(2007)