Roberto Leydi
Roberto Leydi was an Italian ethnomusicologist.
He started his career in the field of contemporary music and jazz, and in the 1950s started his research into the social significance of folk and popular music. He published widely, including L'altra musica and I canti popolari italiani, He was known as sponsor and coordinator of numerous projects and festivals to display and preserve Italian music, both traditional and recent. Shortly before his death, he donated his entire private collection to the Centro di dialettologia e di etnografia in Bellinzona, Switzerland.Works
- L' altra musica. Etnomusicologia, Lucca, LIM, 2008
- L' influenza turco-ottomana e zingara nella musica dei Balcani, Nico Staiti, Nicola Scaldaferri, Udine, Nota, 2004
- Gli strumenti musicali e l'etnografia italiana /Roberto Leydi, Febo Guizzi, Lucca, LIM, 1996
- L'altra musica, Giunti-Ricordi, 1991
- I canti popolari italiani, Mondadori, 1973
- Musica popolare e musica primitiva, Torino-Eri, 1959
