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The Archive
The most important collection of phonographic media products in Sardinia and / or Sardinian artists. It consists of phonographic material, books and journalism. The collection of phonographic material, with engravings dating back to the early ‘900, is composed of over 6,000 media ordered 3,500 cards that allow you to make a thorough research on what has happened musically in Sardinia in the twentieth century. The Mario Cervo Archive is the most important collection in the world devoted to the music of Sardinia. The archive contains most of the phonograph material published, inherent to the Sardinian traditional repertoire, recorded between 1922 and 1997.
It includes more than 6000 catalogued supports and sorted by the ethnomusicologist Paolo Angeli: a job made possible thanks to the intervention of the Regional Institute for Ethnography. The material contained in the Archives allows us today to make a thorough research on what happened musically in Sardinia in 1900.
The Archive’s core is about traditional music in different genres, such as the “canto a chitarra” (a canto in Sardinian language or Gallurese dialect, accompanied by a guitar), the “gara poetica” (poetry competition based on improvisation), the “canto a tenore” (choral folk singing, characteristic of Barbagia), the “canto campidanese” (a canto in Campidanese dialect), melody played with Launeddas (a typical Sardinian woodwind made of three pipes), “tasgja” and “canto a concordu” (choral folk singing, characteristic of Gallura and Logudoro, respectively), and other instrumental chants and dances.
MARIO CERVO
1929 Mario Cervo was born in Olbia, he was the first of five children. His childhood spent in very hard times, both for the sad period of the war as well as be orphaned at a young age, he studied with profit until the third class devoting himself, with considerable sacrifice, to support the family.
1950 He began working in the Compagnia Portuale (the stevedores company) of Olbia and here strengthens its nonreligious, socialist and anti-fascist personality who will mark him throughout his life. In this period begins the phonographic material collection and the research in the field of all expressions of his native Sardinia.
A research that began for his passion for Gavino De Lunas, memories of a childhood made ​​of gramophones that played in the streets and children who crowded in front of the “magic tool”, to listen to what Mario Cervo has always considered the king of cantadores.
At the same time devoted his research to the recovery of everything that was published in Sardinia, or from Sardinian artists anywhere in the world, giving rise to a unique collection, suspended between traditional Sardinian music and light music.
1958 Is the year in which he got married to Anna Caboni, the woman who will stand beside him throughout his life.
1962 Nuraghe is established, is the first record in Sardinia.
1970 Mario join the birth of the first radios in Olbia conducting a transmission entirely in the Sardinian language. The use of Gallura and Logudorese languages become a hallmark of his public speeches, a sign of belonging to the people who still remember he for its simplicity, availability and generosity....http://www.archiviomariocervo.it/mario-cervo_en/
THE PRIZE
The cultural association Mario Cervo organizes the Recording Award “Mario Cervo” to enhance the work of those who, through the creation of a recording product, promotes cultural Sardinian heritage and to create a get-together among artists and their audience.
The award is open to soloists and instrumental and vocal groups of artists origin, born or lived mainly in Sardinia, who have regularly put marketing a record production in 2015.
The Mario Cervo award is open to all and is divided into two sections: Tradition, for the traditional Sardinian music, and Innovation, for music of all kinds. Up for grabs are sculptures or Sardinian artistic objects specially made for the winners of each category.

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