Friday, September 25, 2009

When I Swallow I Feel A Lump In My Throat

How is the protection of intangible cultural heritage (or intangible).

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La tutela del patrimonio culturale immateriale (o intangibile) è da molti anni all’attenzione dell’Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l’Educazione, la Scienza e la Cultura (UNESCO). L’adozione della Convenzione per la salvaguardia del patrimonio culturale immateriale è infatti il punto di arrivo di un lungo percorso - iniziato nel 1973 con la proposta della Bolivia di aggiungere uno specifico Protocollo alla Convenzione Universale sul diritto d’autore , finalizzato alla protezione delle tradizioni popolari. Fra il 1973 e il 2003 si è avuta non solo una successione di studi, ricerche and international meetings, but also the adoption of tools such as, for example, Recommendation on the protection of traditional culture and popular of 1989.

With the launch of the Proclamation of Masterpieces of the program on the oral and intangible heritage of humanity (1997) has for the first time created a policy that internationally, through the compilation of lists, would enable them to identify goods would become part of the system of protection provided by the future Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The creation of this new policy has had the merit of drawing attention della comunità internazionale sulla questione e, dopo qualche anno, di approdare alla larga condivisione dell’idea di adottare uno strumento internazionale giuridicamente vincolante. La Convenzione per la salvaguardia del patrimonio culturale immateriale è stata quindi adottata il 17 ottobre 2003, nel corso della 32° sessione della Conferenza Generale dell’UNESCO ed è entrata in vigore il 20 aprile 2006, dopo tre mesi dalla data di deposito del trentesimo strumento di ratifica. L’Italia ha provveduto a ratificarla con la legge 27 settembre 2007, n.167.

In base alla Convenzione, il patrimonio culturale immateriale, definito anche “patrimonio vivente”, è considerato the basis of cultural diversity and its protection is a guarantee for continued creativity. Article 2 defines the intangible cultural heritage as a set of practices, representations, expressions, and the knowledge and skills that communities, groups or, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of its cultural richness . Also mentioned in Article 2 are then the main areas which are indicative of that heritage:

  • the oral traditions and expressions, including language as a vehicle of intangible cultural heritage;
  • performing arts, such as music, dance theater and traditional
  • social practices, rituals and festivals ;
  • knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe;
  • traditional craftsmanship.

Member States shall undertake to assume responsibility for the safeguard of the national first compiling inventories of intangible cultural heritage present in its territory, also undertake: to create and strengthen institutions for training in the management of intangible cultural heritage and the transmission of this heritage, to ensure access to those assets that is respectful of the customs che regolano l’accesso ad esso; a creare istituzioni per la documentazione del patrimonio culturale intangibile. Gli Stati  si impegnano altresì a facilitare l’accesso delle comunità e dei gruppi alle attività di salvaguardia.

Riferimenti normativi ITALIA: ( Legge n.167 del 27 Settembre 2007, G.U. n. 238 del 12 Ottobre 2007)

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Monday, September 21, 2009

Jetta Second Gear Grind

The lesson from the past.

Pensiamo a cosa doveva essere questo centro storico trecento anni fa, la storia della nostra comunità era racchiusa  tra le sue mura e tra le  sue pietre. In questo place in the past the civic life, religious life and the administrative one. Think of the churches, important, impressive and rich ... we think the citizens of this bustling community that animated, filled the center with their activities, the work of artisans and the sounds and voices of everyday life. Their vitality stopped helplessly, at the time, only to the mysterious and terrible natural events.

These deeply marked the whole area. We recall the most decisive as the plague of 1656, the typhoid epidemic in 1764 and the two violent earthquakes that destroyed all homes and decimated the population of the earthquake and the December 5, 1456, notorious, 5 June 1688. From these adversities affected communities were able to come out and completely rebuild the towns. Historians mentioning about the impressive reconstruction of ; monumental religious buildings Sanframondi Guard.

Put it this way: today we are faced with the nth natural event that does not endanger our lives, but surely destroying our history, crumbles the thread of our memories ... an even more insidious and relentless destruction ... be slowly not remember ... forgotten. Will not be called an earthquake, epidemic or plague, but is better known as neglect, abandonment ... inertia.

Our predecessors have been able to rebuild, with impressive speed and determination, buildings, churches and all that had been destroyed. They were able to start again!

Today, this our community, in general, those who govern, in particular, are paralyzed by the 'earthquake' inefficiency, stunned the useless exercise of bureaucratic trap 'funds', 'measures', 'chains' that always end in order to produce and create anything ...

here is to make a choice and not too difficult to answer this one question: we want to continue to exist as a community we want or, alternatively, to lose our tracks, our history, our traditions? If we answer the second, of course, we must not do anything! Better, keep doing what we're doing.

If, however, let's identify in the first, then we must react and also understand that the recovery of our history, memory and our traditions just because they are unique, original imported and have to go through the help and the operational strategies of international organizations such as UNESCO ( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ) which was, at 'inside of its Division of Cultural Heritage, a section on Intangible Heritage and has undertaken a series of actions in this area, relating to the identification of intangible assets of global interest worthy of being regarded as' masterpieces intangible heritage of humanity '. What does it matter

our center? Return the theme of recovery of our history, our traditions. The historic center of seven-Guard and rituals are in close relationship, in fact, the urban space of the old town is the life for this special event. We can not think of rituals without our center and vice versa. But the only recovery center Sanframondi old guard is not a trivial matter, energy and resources invested very important municipal and over. It takes a wide-ranging project, a project that protects and recovers in time, both the old center of the Guard, its churches, its location, both seven-rites of penance as a manifestation of deep faith, to be delivered to future generations.

Without delay, if we agree with this assessment, as citizens, we feed the proposal that is clearly described in This page