Michel Giacometti

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Michel-Marie Giacometti (born January 8, 1929 in Ajaccio , † November 24, 1990 in Faro ) was a French ethnologist from Corsica who was particularly active in Portugal .

Life

After a visit to the Musée de l'Homme (Eng .: Museum of the People) in Paris , he became interested in traditional folk music from Portugal for the first time. In 1959 he moved to Portugal after he was diagnosed with tuberculosis . He moved to Bragança . In 1960 he founded the Arquivos Sonoros Portugueses to archive traditional Portuguese folk songs. To this end, he traveled all over Portugal until 1982. Under the umbrella of the Arquivos Sonoros Portugueses , Giacometti, together with the composer Fernando Lopes Graça , published regional folk songs in five music-ethnological record editions ( Antologia da Música Regional Portuguesa ).

From 1970 to 1974 he produced, together with the director Alfredo Tropa , for the RTP the television series Povo que Canta (dt .: people that sings), in which he presented folk songs, customs and tales that have been handed down in some remote villages. The series not only brought the television viewers in the cities closer to forgotten traditions, but also showed a distant and backward Portugal, living in precarious circumstances. The Giacometti associated with the illegal PCP thus also became an encouraging figure in the resistance against the repressive António de Oliveira Salazar regime. The series also influenced and strengthened directors such as António Campos et al. a. to direct one's gaze to the hinterland of Portugal with its wealth of tradition and its poverty at the time.

In 1981 another collection of recorded folk tunes was published in the Círculo de Leitores , under the title Cancioneiro Popular Português (German: Popular Portuguese songs), and again with the collaboration of Fernando Lopes Graça.

The recognition of Giacometti's music-ethnological work was increasingly evident in other areas as well. He was musical advisor for António de Macedo's film A Promessa (English: The Promise), a fisher drama filmed in Figueira da Foz in 1973 . And he regularly advised the Museum of Work ( Museu do Trabalho ) in Setúbal , which opened in 1987 , particularly on the groundbreaking exhibition O Trabalho faz o Homem (Eng: Work makes the man).

In 1990 Giacometti died in Faro. He was buried according to his will in the small town of Peroguarda in the Alentejo .

reception

The Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti in Setúbal

The Museu do Trabalho Museum in Setúbal was renamed Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti in 1991 and has since displayed a collection of everyday agricultural objects left by Giacometti. Other of his various collections can be seen in the museums of Ferreira do Alentejo , in the Museu da Música Portuguesa (Casa Verdades de Faria, in Monte Estoril, Estoril municipality ), and in the ethnological museum Museu Nacional de Etnologia in Lisbon, where its extensive, Collection of audio documents acquired by the state in 1984.

In 2002 he was posthumously awarded the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique with the rank of Grand Officer. In 2004 the book Michel Giacometti: Caminho para um Museu was published , with articles about Giacometti by various authors, such as Pedro Caldeira Cabral . In 2005, the Festival for Women's Singing and Instruments of the World in Corsica was dedicated to the dedication of Giacometti's work. These were Amélia Muge , Mafalda Arnauth and the Gaiteiros de Lisboa invited. In addition to schools in Portugal, streets were also named after him in various places, for example in Loures , Seixal and Cuba .

His work is important to this day. In 2009, a two-volume collection of orally transmitted stories and traditions was published, compiled from the estate of Giacometti. In the same year, ZON Lusomundo, in an edition of six DVDs, released Povo que Canta , a series filmed by Ivan Dias and Manuel Rocha in 2008/2009 , based on the model of Giacometti's series of the same name, but this time also in Madeira and the Azores , where Giacometti had not made any television episodes. The last episode shows a documentary about Giacometti and a concert by Brigada Victor Jara with reinterpretations of folk tunes from the Giacometti collection. In 2010, the entire original programs of Povo que Canta 1970–1974 appeared on ten DVDs, accompanied by books and two CDs in an extensive edition by Tradisom .

Filmography

  • 1962: O Alar da Rede (short film)
  • 1963: Rio De Onor (short film)
  • 1970–1974: Povo que Canta (TV series)

Web links

Commons : Michel Giacometti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Topic of the book Michel Giacometti - Uma Longa Militância. Tradisom, Vila Verde 2011, ISBN 978-972-8644178 , part 12 of the Filmografia Completa
  2. ↑ www.michelgiacometti.com , accessed July 28, 2012
  3. ^ Salwa Castelo-Branco: Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX, C – L. 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2010, page 564ff
  4. ↑ www.imdb.de , accessed on July 29, 2012
  5. ↑ www.escolasmichelgiacometti.net , accessed on July 28, 2012
  6. ↑ www.portalnacional.com.pt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 28, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / portalnacional.com.pt  
  7. ↑ www.portugalio.com , accessed July 28, 2012
  8. ↑ www.wook.pt , accessed July 28, 2012
  9. ↑ www.michelgiacometti.com , accessed July 28, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Giacometti, Michel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giacometti, Michel-Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Ajaccio , Corsica
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1990
Place of death Faro , Portugal