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Department of Cultural Heritage, University of the Salento, Lecce, Italy

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• Research Article   
  Musical Festivals and Cultural Tourism the Festival Della Valle d’Itria as “Identity Heritage” for the Renewal of Heritage Tourism
  Author(s): Valentina Castronuovo* and Anna Trono
  
  In recent years, the concept of intangible cultural heritage has undergone multiple transformations due to the impact of globalization, effectively grappling with a new paradigm of increasing social complexity. In this new paradigm, the link between identity and place has become blurred, widening or narrowing the scope and nature of the factors falling within its area of influence. Music festivals with a historic dimension provide an emblematic example of immaterial cultural heritage, since they constitute experiential goods that exist only while they are being produced. They express artistic innovation while drawing on the historic cultural background of the context in question, its accumulated cultural capital. On this basis, this paper investigates the identity heritage component of the Festival Della Valle d’Itria in order to identify its possible role in the restoration of .. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2167-0269.22.11.504

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