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Italian term or phrase: l'Europa meticcia

English translation: multi-influenced Europe






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Art/Literary - Music
Italian term or phrase: l'Europa meticcia
from the album notes for the latest album by Radiodervish (may be a help in understanding the use of the term, as the group brings together a Palestinian and an Apulian musician).
It can be a derogatory term, but here it clearly is not...


"Il disco contiene canzoni che parlano innanzitutto d’amore e di vita, costruite su melodie di presa immediata e arrangiamenti che guardano indietro liberamente, ricomponendo una memoria personale e generazionale che si nutre dei ritmi regolari della disco music anni Settanta e del Battiato pop dei primi anni Ottanta, dell’onda araba del raï e delle tastierine giocattolo dell’elettronica povera, come dei nuovi ritmi sintetici *dell’Europa meticcia* che hanno cominciato a prendere forma nell’Inghilterra degli anni Novanta."
Anthony Green
Italy
Local time: 14:01
English translation:multi-influenced Europe
Explanation:
I think "multi-influenced" could convey both musical ("contaminazioni") and cultural influences (thus the "meticcia").
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Claudia Benetello
Italy
Local time: 14:01
Note from asker to answerer
Yes, thanks, Claudia. I would never have even thought of that! Music is definitely your radar!
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2Melting pot EuropePaola Casati
3 +1multi-genre European musical scene/cross-cultural Europe/miscegenated European music
Umberto Cassano
3multi-influenced Europe
Claudia Benetello
3intercultural Europepotra
3rainbow EuropexxxCMJ_Trans
3mixed cultural Europe
texjax DDS PhD


  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Melting pot Europe


Explanation:
I think "melting pot" may avoid any derogatory reference...


    Reference: http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/youth/docs/Brussels%20Powerpoi...
Paola Casati
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:01
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
Notes to answerer
Asker: sounds good - I actually have a poster of "The Melting Pot" on my wall painted by a friend of mine

Asker: http://www.gerard-siena.it/america1.htm


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Alessandra Renna: Sono affezionata a questo concetto
44 mins

agree KayW
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
mixed cultural Europe


Explanation:
E' l'unica espressione che mi viene in mente ora e che non abbia un connotato negativo.

Buona domenica Anthony!

texjax DDS PhD
United States
Local time: 08:01
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 4
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
multi-genre European musical scene/cross-cultural Europe/miscegenated European music


Explanation:
You can have a look at the Cambridge Companion to Singing and search for "miscegenated". The concept of miscegenated music links "world music" and the music of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to western singers like Peter Gabriel, etc...

http://books.google.com/books?id=8T73OnRmIVIC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9...


http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&...

HTH


Umberto Cassano
Italy
Local time: 14:01
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Alessandra Renna: Sabato andrò ad ascoltare i radiodervish e crecherò di cogliere tutte le contaminazioni
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rainbow Europe


Explanation:
just another one

xxxCMJ_Trans
France
Local time: 14:01
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PRO pts in category: 4
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
intercultural Europe


Explanation:
another option

potra
United States
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Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian, Native in EnglishEnglish
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
multi-influenced Europe


Explanation:
I think "multi-influenced" could convey both musical ("contaminazioni") and cultural influences (thus the "meticcia").

Claudia Benetello
Italy
Local time: 14:01
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 19
Note from asker to answerer
Yes, thanks, Claudia. I would never have even thought of that! Music is definitely your radar!
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