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Lady J dottoressa in mondinologia

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Lei non lo scrive sul blog (modesta!), ma questa settimana Lady J torna a scuola. Ha vinto un dottorato in storia della modernizzazione all’Università di Siena, e ha deciso di fare la tesi… sulle mondine! Che poi sembra una scelta molto ragionevole, visto l’accesso privilegiato alle fonti di cui godiamo. Lady e dottoressa, siamo molto orgogliosi! Spero intervisti anche me, che sono in fondo una mondina ad honorem 😉
Nel frattempo sono arrivato a Siviglia per il WOMEX, di cui riferirò in questi giorni.

Lady J Ph.D. in history of the rice weeders

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She’s not writing about it on the blog (being modest!), but this week Lady J goes back to school. She’s been offered a place as a Ph.D. student at University of Siena: she is going to study Hiistroy of the modernization, with a dissertation about… rice weeders! Which seems a really sensible choice, given the extra privileged access to sources we enjoy. I hope she will interview me too, since I feel like a honorary mondina myself ;’)
Meanwhile, I arrived in Sevilla to attend WOMEX. I’ll write about it in the next few days.

From mother to daughter-The movie: the first glimpses

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Shooting for the Mondine movie is officially finished: we have been editing since September. For now, Zambe the director has put together this showreel, which contains footage (and audio) from the Detroit show cut with clips shot in various other occasions (at Arezzo on May 1st, in Detroit, on the rice paddies) and vintage repertoire material. It was really emotional to watch it… I can’t wait for the film to be finished.