Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Learning, Identity, Duration and the Virtual
- Chapter 3 Siena and its Province – An Overview
- Chapter 4 Siena and the Palio – War and State Machine – Identity and Becoming
- Chapter 5 Montepulciano's Bruscello Theatre – Rupture, Continuity and the ‘Refrain’
- Chapter 6 The ‘Problem/Idea’ of Montepulciano – How to be Autonomous in the Face of Overwhelming Force
- Chapter 7 Montepulciano's Bravio Delle Botti – A Festival in the Making
- Chapter 8 Sharecropping and Modernity
- Chapter 9 Monticchiello – A Community Under Siege
- Chapter 10 A Tree with its Roots in the Air – Monticchiello's Theatre of the ‘Virtual’
- Chapter 11 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Siena and its Province – An Overview
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Learning, Identity, Duration and the Virtual
- Chapter 3 Siena and its Province – An Overview
- Chapter 4 Siena and the Palio – War and State Machine – Identity and Becoming
- Chapter 5 Montepulciano's Bruscello Theatre – Rupture, Continuity and the ‘Refrain’
- Chapter 6 The ‘Problem/Idea’ of Montepulciano – How to be Autonomous in the Face of Overwhelming Force
- Chapter 7 Montepulciano's Bravio Delle Botti – A Festival in the Making
- Chapter 8 Sharecropping and Modernity
- Chapter 9 Monticchiello – A Community Under Siege
- Chapter 10 A Tree with its Roots in the Air – Monticchiello's Theatre of the ‘Virtual’
- Chapter 11 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introduction
This short chapter aims to introduce the reader to the locations where the research has taken place. Basic information on population, territory size, economy, maps and illustrations are provided to aid this. The links between festivals, communities' histories and environmental conditions form an important part of the study. For this reason, this chapter is aimed at providing an overview of the topography and other geographical features, such as climate, soil composition and water and how these have been managed by or have influenced the development of the communities in question. As will be evident in later chapters, the rural territories around urban centres have more direct bearing on the research carried out in the smaller communities of Montepulciano and Monticchiello, making it worthwhile to introduce these at an early stage. The interlinked histories of Siena and Florence, once medieval ‘superpowers’ of the region, also have had a profound impact on the history of the two smaller neighbours. These aspects are presented by way of a tour starting with the Sienese countryside, through Monticchiello and Montepulciano and coming finally to Siena itself.
The Land and the Water
Some of the landscape of the Siena province has come to be well known in the last few years. The gently sloping hills and cypress-lined avenues unwinding towards sturdily built farmsteads have become almost a logo for the rural idyll, escape-from-it-all dream. The idealised image that car manufacturers, filmmakers and tourist industries have adopted to capture popular imagination has great appeal.
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- Festivals, Affect and IdentityA Deleuzian Apprenticeship in Central Italian Communities, pp. 33 - 42Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2011