Recovering Vanished Sound-Landscapes: Sounds, Identities and Multilinguality

Abstract

In this paper we will highlight certain literary works belonging to different times and different genres, all revolving around the category of “Southern Italy”, dealing with the irreversibility of social changes and defining certain specific contexts by recalling sound-related expressions. We take into account the comedy Frischijamu by Domenico Mosca as an example of a representation of sound phenomena as perceived by the community in the semi-public environment of the ruga (gr. Pοῡγα ‘alley’).